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Title Author Year
Brotherhood Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Curtains Ruth Stone 1987
A Situation for Mrs. Biswas Prageeta Sharma 2010
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion] Keith Waldrop 2009
The Slave’s Complaint George Moses Horton 1829
On Translation Mónica de la Torre 2002
Autumn Grasses Margaret Gibson 2003
Tours C. D. Wright 1982
Not marble nor the gilded monuments (Sonnet 55) William Shakespeare 1609
[The long love that in my thought doth harbour] Thomas Wyatt 1557
The Plot Against the Giant Wallace Stevens 1923
Bird Tomás Q. Morín 2025
On the Three Forms of Water Campbell McGrath 2021
The American Flag Nicolás Heredia y Mota 1892
less hope Danez Smith 2022
Your Hands Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
Spring Song Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
pantoum for aiyana & not a single hashtag Aurielle Marie 2021
With the Lark Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
That is solemn we have ended,— (87) Emily Dickinson 2020

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