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Title Author Year
Haiku Ray McNiece 2004
Celestial Estrangement Philip Lamantia 2013
Men Say They Know Many Things Henry David Thoreau 1943
Sunday Cecily Parks 2022
Divorce Song Jameson Fitzpatrick 2022
I Know I Have Been Happiest Dorothy Parker 1926
I Come from a Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen Kari Gunter-Seymour 2020
Lament for Dark Peoples Langston Hughes 1926
The Song of the Smoke W. E. B. Du Bois 1914
Cenzontle Marcelo Hernandez Castillo 2018
Harlem Shadows Claude McKay 1922
Narwhals Are Real Gloria Muñoz 2021
1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed LeAnne Howe 2020
From the Dark Tower Countee Cullen 1922
Dreams Are Illegal Al Mills, Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha 2020
Fingernails Ken Chen 2020
A Mojave Lullaby  Bertrand N. O. Walker 1924
the pomegranate’s decimation Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen 2020
We are Marching Carrie Law Morgan Figgs 1920
Song of the Open Road, 11 Walt Whitman 1891

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