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Title Author Year
Shiloh: A Requiem Herman Melville 1866
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Galway Kinnell 2000
The Concrete River Luis J. Rodriguez 1990
The Tinajera Notebook Forrest Gander 2011
Morning After The Election Regie Cabico 2024
The neurologist gives us permission Seema Reza 2024
Go Youth James Tate 1994
The Night Before I Leave Home Elisa Gonzalez 2023
less hope Danez Smith 2022
The Weather-Cock Points South Amy Lowell 1921
Gitanjali 90 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
He Had His Dream Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Why We Oppose Votes for Men Alice Duer Miller 1915
The Sound of Their Names Ellen Bass 2020
At Night Stanley Plumly 2019
O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head (Sonnet 148) William Shakespeare 1904
The Spires of Oxford Winifred M. Letts 2018
The 26th of December Galway Kinnell 2018
Hurry Marie Howe 2017
& even the black guy’s profile reads ‘sorry, no black guys’ Danez Smith 2017

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