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Title Author Year
Gitanjali 73 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
The Mask Clarissa Scott Delany 1927
Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode Airea D. Matthews 2019
For a Sad Lady Dorothy Parker 1926
Poem—To the Black Beloved Langston Hughes 1926
Afraid Langston Hughes 1926
A Farewell Langston Hughes 1926
Incantation of the First Order Rita Dove 2021
Primordial Mirror Ama Codjoe 2021
Song for a Banjo Dance Langston Hughes 1926
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks Countee Cullen 1925
Becoming a Ghost Tanaya Winder 2020
Love in the City José Martí 2002
Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter John Crowe Ransom 1923
To Susan B. Anthony on her eightieth birthday Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1900
Farewell Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1895
The World-Soul Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
In Tall Grass Carl Sandburg 1918
[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial. Mikel on his last legs, covered] Diane Seuss 2019
Nearly Idra Novey 2019

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