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Title Author Year
Self-Portrait 1 Tove Ditlevsen 2025
Wooden Window Frames Luci Tapahonso 2024
If I Was President Hamza Mohamed 2024
The Crypt Seed Jackie Wang 2024
When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside Donika Kelly 2024
Gitanjali 37 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
While I Wash My Face I Ask Impossible Questions of Myself and Those Who Love Me Charif Shanahan 2023
Grass, 1967 Victoria Chang 2023
Owl Anne Haven McDonnell 2022
Repentance Ameen Rihani 1905
Jealousy Ameen Rihani 1905
Condolence Dorothy Parker 1926
Sick4Sick torrin a. greathouse 2022
Memorial Hoops Reginald Dwayne Betts 2021
Cenzontle Marcelo Hernandez Castillo 2018
Belt Is Just Another Verb for Song torrin a. greathouse 2021
Moving the Bones Rick Barot 2021
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks Countee Cullen 1925
The New Moon Langston Hughes 1922
Nocturne Gwendolyn Bennett 1922

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