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Title Author Year
Starlight William Meredith 1997
Kinky Denise Duhamel 1997
Do You Know What Today Is? Danez Smith 2026
The Yellow Corn Charles G. Eastman 1848
Vita Nuova, 5 Dante Alighieri 2024
Drill Jada Renée Allen 2024
A Black Man Talks of Reaping Arna Bontemps 1922
Southern Mansion Arna Bontemps 1922
Singularity Marissa Davis 2020
As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods Walt Whitman
The Dead-Beat Wilfred Owen 2018
Femme Futures Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 2019
breaking away to the u.s. José B. González 2017
Prayer at Sunrise James Weldon Johnson 2015
Complaint William Carlos Williams 1921
Green D. H. Lawrence 1917
Harlem Shadows Claude McKay 1921
What the Angels Left Marie Howe 1988
In Memoriam, Epilogue, [O true and tried, so well and long] Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1850
The Descent of Alette [“I walked into”] Alice Notley 1992

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