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Title Author Year
Notes from the Other Side Jane Kenyon 1993
Metamorphosis VIII, 611–724 Ovid 1683
Black Nikes Harryette Mullen 1997
I Talk Black Lady Brion 2018
Gertrude Stein Mina Loy 1924
Standup Sonnet Zeina Hashem Beck 2025
I’m Dating a Man Who’s Married Aaron Smith 2025
Failed Poems Jessica Abughattas 2025
Fog Emma Lazarus 1889
The Home of the Sacred Ofelia Zepeda 2024
It’s Not That I Can’t Have Children Kai Coggin 2024
Parable Nickole Brown 2024
At Sixty-Five Henri Cole 2022
Ballade of a Great Weariness Dorothy Parker 1926
The False Friends Dorothy Parker 1926
As a Father of Daughters Hannah Aizenman 2022
Young Prostitute Langston Hughes 1926
Afraid Langston Hughes 1926
Everything Needs Fixing Karla Cordero 2021
Angelhair Angela Jackson 1998

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