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Title Author Year
The Rule of Opulence Khadijah Queen 2015
Frequently Asked Questions: #9 Camille T. Dungy 2015
Hands Safiya Sinclair 2015
Taproot and Cradle Khaled Mattawa 2014
Another Poem for Mothers Erin Belieu 2014
Rock Me to Sleep Elizabeth Akers Allen 1859
Getting Close Victoria Redel 2013
Metamorphosis James Richardson 2013
Mother Lola Ridge 1920
Mother’s Day David Young 2011
Translations Michael Dickman 2010
My Mother's Lips (audio only) C. K. Williams 1992
Jugglers Francisco Aragón 2000
To My Mother Waiting on 10/01/54 Teresa Carson 2008
Black Woman Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Mother o’ Mine Rudyard Kipling 1892
To My Mother Edgar Allan Poe 1849
[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome] Christina Rossetti 1881
To My Mother Christina Rossetti 1842
To My Mother Robert Louis Stevenson 1885

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