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Title Author Year
My hero bares his nerves Dylan Thomas 2003
Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry] Christopher Smart 1939
The American Soldier Philip Freneau 1790
The Dry Tortugas Molly Fisk 2019
Riddle Jericho Brown 2019
A Coney Island of the Mind, 20 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1958
Meanwhile the elephants Mark Wagenaar 2018
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
Battery Anne Waldman 2016
The Church of Michael Jordan Jeffrey McDaniel 2016
Pastoral William Carlos Williams 2016
Good Hair Sherman Alexie 2011
Starfish Eleanor Lerman 2005
Snow-Bound [The sun that brief December day] John Greenleaf Whittier 1866
Harlem Night Club Langston Hughes 1926
8. bell hooks 2012
Waiting for Your Call Aria Aber 2021
Endymion Oscar Wilde 2018
We Should Make a Documentary About Spades Terrance Hayes 2017
Autumn, New York, 1999 Patricia Spears Jones 2016

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