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Title Author Year
The Sphinx Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841
Night Anne Brontë 1915
Before William Ernest Henley 1908
Mexican Heaven José Olivarez 2023
Saturday’s Child Countee Cullen 1925
Paper Cuts Natalie Scenters-Zapico 2019
Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden 2017
C.R.E.A.M. Danez Smith 2017
Grief Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2016
I saw a man pursuing the horizon Stephen Crane 2013
Haunted Seas Cale Young Rice 1921
The Heart of a Woman Georgia Douglas Johnson 1918
Affirmation Donald Hall 2002
Sport Langston Hughes 1927
Dysphoria Oliver Baez Bendorf 2020
Ghareeb Fatimah Asghar 2018
Amores (VIII) E. E. Cummings 1923
Passive Voice Laura Da’ 2017
from Song of Myself XXIV
Summoning the Body that Is Mine When I Shut My Eyes Jenny Johnson 2017

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