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Title Author Year
Particulate Matter Molly Fisk 2018
In the old age black was not counted fair (Sonnet 127) William Shakespeare 1904
Invocation Jane Johnston Schoolcraft 1860
The Weight of Sweetness Li-Young Lee 2017
Given to Rust Vievee Francis 2017
& even the black guy’s profile reads ‘sorry, no black guys’ Danez Smith 2017
The Bronze Legacy Effie Lee Newsome 1922
Exposure Wilfred Owen 2016
Winter Twilight Anne Porter 2006
The Mystic's Christmas John Greenleaf Whittier 1882
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage [I stood in Venice] Lord George Gordon Byron 1818
Stanzas in Meditation Gertrude Stein 1994
Day of the Dead Peter Balakian 2025
Memory Anne Brontë 1920
News Item Dorothy Parker 1926
Young Sailor Langston Hughes 1926
I, Lover Elsa Gidlow 1923
To the White Fiends Claude McKay 1922
Cavalry Crossing a Ford Walt Whitman
Confessional Hieu Minh Nguyen 2019

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