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Title Author Year
The Bistro Styx Rita Dove 1995
The Meaning of Zero: A Love Poem Amy Uyematsu 2005
After a Death Tomas Tranströmer 2004
The World George Herbert 1633
Freedom and Truth Margaret Fuller 1859
To The People Who Have Resisted the Urge to Push an Asian Person Into the Path of a Moving Train Bao Phi 2024
Sheep in Winter John Clare 1835
Description of Symptoms Allison Benis White 2023
A Mona Lisa Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
The Birds’ Lullaby Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Hard Daddy Langston Hughes 1922
Skin Tight Ishmael Reed 2021
American Girl Dolls Attend Mandatory Diversity Training Kortney Morrow 2020
The Hill Rupert Brooke 2018
The Dead-Beat Wilfred Owen 2018
Hallowe'en John Kendrick Bangs 2017
Daedalus, After Icarus Saeed Jones 2017
Legendary Nicole Sealey 2017
Losing the 440-Yard Dash Afaa Michael Weaver 2016
Sorcery Sandra Simonds 2016

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