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Title Author Year
The language of the house Manuel Iris 2025
Renee Nicole Good Is Murdered Cornelius Eady 2026
war Nisrine Mbarki Ben-Ayad 2025
Once, Martha Silano 2024
Poem in Which the Violence Occurs Backstage / Poema en el que la violencia acontece fuera del escenario Octavio Quintanilla 2025
Why paint night over nightless day? Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die] Lance Henson 2024
The Swimmer Witter Bynner 1920
Third Grade Georgia A. Popoff 2024
The Pet Leonora Speyer 1921
The Ice Cream Man James Tate 2008
Black Earth Marianne Moore 1921
My Native Land, My Home Claude McKay 1912
Winter: A Dirge Robert Burns 1786
We Used Our Words We Used What Words We Had Franny Choi 2022
Reconciliation Else Lasker-Schüler 1911
The Negro Soldiers Roscoe C. Jamison 1922
Answer July Emily Dickinson 1862
Sudden Friendship Elsa Gidlow 1923
True Kindness Is a Pure Divine Affinity Henry David Thoreau 1943

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