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yes the business folk José Olivarez 2023
Ubi Sunt Virginia Konchan 2023
Ars Poetica Nabila Lovelace 2023
Summer Maeng Sa-song 1965
Ghazal for a First Lover Mónica Gomery 2022
Wild Horses Drink from the River of History Lois Roma-Deeley 2022
Lorca Bob Kaufman 1981
b&w sonnet no. 1 giovanni singleton 2022
Timid Lover Countee Cullen 1922
A Road for Loss Maya Abu Al-Hayyat 2022
The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon Patricia Smith 2022
Length of Moon Arna Bontemps 1926
What’s Broken Dorianne Laux 2007
Childhood Elegy Joseph O. Legaspi 2007
The River Village Tu Fu 1921
Beggar Boy Langston Hughes 1926
Home Thoughts Claude McKay 1922
A Love Note Adeeba Shahid Talukder 2021
Escape Georgia Douglas Johnson 1925
Undoing Khadijah Queen 2021

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