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Title Author Year
American Abyss Cynthia Dewi Oka 2025
I Don’t Wish to be a Vampire Elaine Equi 2025
At the Pool Effie Lee Newsome 1927
  Oh! snatched away in Beauty's bloom Lord George Gordon Byron 1898
Math Class Mary Crow 1996
Ode Lisa Bickmore 2021
Blood Sex Crystal Valentine 2023
Mahler in New York Joseph Fasano 2013
A Chant of Mystics Ameen Rihani 1921
Troubled Woman Langston Hughes 1926
A Song on the Water Thomas Lovell Beddoes 2021
After Many Springs Langston Hughes 1926
Angelhair Angela Jackson 1998
For a Poet Countee Cullen 1925
Soy Boricua Giannina Braschi 2011
My Descendants W. B. Yeats 1970
Disclosure Camisha L. Jones 2020
Pillow Lee Young-ju, Jae Kim 2019
A Reading from the Book of Exile Pádraig Ó Tuama 2019
A Grain of Sand Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895

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