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Title Author Year
Decolonialish Self-Portrait Sara Borjas 2023
Syracuse, October Grady Chambers 2018
Gitanjali 5 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
The Splendid Body Rebecca Lindenberg 2023
Transformation Lewis Grandison Alexander 1926
Ars Poetica Nabila Lovelace 2023
Confession Countee Cullen 1927
Self-Portrait as Land Snail Nickole Brown 2018
Othering Ana Castillo 2021
Moonset Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Rivers Nicolás Guillén 1972
Florida Poem Emma Trelles 2011
Why Do You Love the Poem? Charles Bernstein 2022
Before Sleep Elsa Gidlow 1923
Dawn-Flowers Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
Epitaph for a Darling Lady Dorothy Parker 1926
I Know I Have Been Happiest Dorothy Parker 1926
What’s Broken Dorianne Laux 2007
Quotidian Natasha Trethewey 2021
Artless Brenda Shaughnessy 2012

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