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Title Author Year
Lament for the Makaris William Dunbar 1460
Harlem Shadows Claude McKay 1921
Numbness Phillip Lopate 2009
The Vampire Bride [I am come-I am come!] Henry Thomas Liddell 1833
Stanzas Emily Brontë 1846
“There Is No Such Thing as the Past” [iii] Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026
Summer Grass Carl Sandburg 1928
Where Is My Friend? Dorianne Laux 2026
First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2024
Ledge Kevin Young 2023
At Sunset Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
This Island on Which I Love You Brandy Nālani McDougall 2020
Pictures of Memory Alice Cary 1903
Underbelly Nicole Homer
The Floral Apron Marilyn Chin 2019
High Dangerous Catherine Pierce 2019
Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget Anis Mojgani 2019
Imitation Edgar Allan Poe 2018
In Praise of Okra January Gill O’Neil 2009
Dirt Kwame Dawes 2017

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