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Title Author Year
Elegy for My Grandmother in the Form of a Cactus Julia Bouwsma 2023
Border Bullets Norma Elia Cantú 2019
Long Week Talking Natalie Shapero 2023
Pilgrimage Bhanu Kapil 2023
My Mom’s Been Asking for a Happy Poem All My Life Jennifer Givhan 2023
The Bells Guillaume Apollinaire 1913
On Endings & Longing Eunsong Kim 2020
Continental Breakfast Nkosi Nkululeko 2023
From the Dark Tower Countee Cullen 1927
To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning Countee Cullen 1927
Unarcheology of ‘Father’ George Abraham 2022
Lullaby of the Iroquois Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
I Never Felt Comfortable in My Own Skin So I Made a New One Xan Forest Phillips 2022
Comparison Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Negro Dancers Langston Hughes 1926
Quotidian Natasha Trethewey 2021
Mothership Tracy K. Smith 2021
4 stars Anis Mojgani 2008
bastard and bite Roscoe Burnems 2016
Looking for the Beautiful Things Joy Priest 2021

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