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Title Author Year
The Shoes My Mother Hated, in Fairness, Were Ugly Ariana Brown 2026
Fardi Wa Nafli Ameen Rihani 1905
Something to Believe In Carl Phillips 2019
Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God Meg Day 2017
Where the Sky Meets the Earth W. Todd Kaneko 2017
Mariposa Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
Song of Myself, 4 Walt Whitman 1891
The Mind in State Fady Joudah 2016
The Republic of Poetry Martín Espada 2016
to my last period Lucille Clifton 1991
Pirate Story Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
To Dorothy Marvin Bell 2000
Rain Claribel Alegría 2003
A Cry from an Indian Wife Emily Pauline Johnson 1900
It Was the Animals Natalie Diaz 2020
Prodigal Linda Gregerson 2016
Before a Painting James Weldon Johnson 2016
Crows Marilyn Nelson 2016
Are You Going to Stay? Thomas Meyer 2015
Tanka Sadakichi Hartmann 1916

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