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Title Author Year
Gun Control Donika Kelly 2017
Enslaved Claude McKay 1922
Amphibious Aimee Suzara 2020
Little Lead Soldiers  Giannina Braschi 1988
The Murderess Alice Cary 1903
Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of my Fur Ellen Bass 2020
River to River Hai-Dang Phan 2019
The Past Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
Had the Vines Budded, Were the Pomegranates in Bloom S. Brook Corfman 2019
Amores (I) E. E. Cummings 1923
Ah! wherefore with infection should he live (Sonnet 67) William Shakespeare 1904
That thou hast her, it is not all my grief (Sonnet 42) William Shakespeare 1904
Roses Only Marianne Moore 1921
Evergreen Oliver Baez Bendorf 2018
Thanksgiving in the Anthropocene, 2015 Craig Santos Perez 2017
The War in Colors Dunya Mikhail 2017
Dear Mama (4) Wanda Coleman 2017
Liu Ch'e Ezra Pound 2017
From “Fairies” Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2013
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah Patricia Smith 2012

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