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Title Author Year
Decolonialish Self-Portrait Sara Borjas 2023
Elegy for My Grandmother in the Form of a Cactus Julia Bouwsma 2023
Unspooled Carla Rachel Sameth 2021
Heart-Stirrings Claude McKay 1912
Gitanjali 39 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
[When you told us our glances, soft, timid, and mild,] Wallada bint al-Mustakfi 1796
Triptych Sherwin Bitsui 2022
Weeds Diane Seuss 2022
Wild Horses Drink from the River of History Lois Roma-Deeley 2022
Remember Not Helene Johnson 1922
The Pirate Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
The Change Has Come Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Winter Moon Langston Hughes 1926
Having a Fight With You Patrick Phillips 2022
A Prayer Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
Drunktown Jake Skeets 2018
To My Friends Countee Cullen 1925
Serenity Charles Bertram Johnson 1918
My Mother Claude McKay 1922
Beggar Boy Langston Hughes 1926

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