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Title Author Year
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
No crowd that has occurred (111) Emily Dickinson 1929
Lament Rainer Maria Rilke 1918
Mother's Rules Yalie Saweda Kamara 2016
Gitanjali 35 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Coyote Sees Himself in Water Tacey M. Atsitty 2022
Rose Song Anne Reeve Aldrich 1889
A Modified Villanelle for My Childhood Suzi F. Garcia 2021
The Spanish Needle Claude McKay 1922
Lady, Lady Anne Spencer 1925
Object Permanence Hala Alyan 2021
Song for Equal Suffrage Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1911
13 Questions for the Next Economy Susan Briante 2018
The Show Wilfred Owen 1921
Another Day Craig Morgan Teicher 2018
Adore Li-Young Lee 2018
A Way of Seeing Kwame Dawes 2017
Brooding Grief D. H. Lawrence 2017
Irony Layli Long Soldier 2016
From “Fast Speaking Woman, Part 1” Anne Waldman 2016

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