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Title Author Year
Queer Trivia Night Jenny Johnson 2026
The Owl Gia Anansi-Shakur 2025
The War Against Birthdays Josh Bell 2025
The End of Girlhood Traci Brimhall 2024
Anthropocenic Jake Skeets 2023
Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode Airea D. Matthews 2019
[Oye! This is an apartment building ode.] Dimitri Reyes 2022
Incantation of the First Order Rita Dove 2021
The Maze Mary-Kim Arnold 2021
Song for a Banjo Dance Langston Hughes 1926
June Sunset Sarojini Naidu 1917
Ways to Disappear Camille Rankine 2021
The Dance of Love Countee Cullen 1925
Love Game Angelo Geter 2018
My Descendants W. B. Yeats 1970
The Rainbow Effie Waller Smith 1909
Farewell Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1895
Kal Fatimah Asghar 2018
The World-Soul Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
Father replays the funeral in Dream #28 Margo Tamez 2019

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