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Title Author Year
Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays Charles Reznikoff 1976
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Walt Whitman 1891
Sisyphus Shara Lessley 2026
Alignment Jewel Rodgers 2025
Everybody’s Autobiography Tracy K. Smith 2024
The Hermit Claude McKay 1912
Why I Needed To Richard Blanco 2023
A Mona Lisa Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
For the Bird Singing Before Dawn Kim Stafford 2022
Shadows Langston Hughes 1923
Insomniami Ariel Francisco 2021
Object Permanence Hala Alyan 2021
Ode to Sudanese-Americans Safia Elhillo 2021
Southern Mansion Arna Bontemps 1922
The Lynching Claude McKay 1922
Thoughts in Jail Katharine Rolston Fisher 1918
On a Day, In the World Brenda Hillman 2018
FaceTime Clint Smith 2017
My Mama moved among the days Lucille Clifton 2017
Leave No Trace Maggie Dietz 2016

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