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Title Author Year
Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!] Frank O’Hara 1964
We Real Cool Gwendolyn Brooks 1960
Howl, Parts I & II Allen Ginsberg 1984
Notes from the Other Side Jane Kenyon 1993
I’m Nobody! Who are you? (260) Emily Dickinson 1951
You Know Me Valeria Ruiz 2024
Self-Portrait as Combination Taco Bell / Pizza Hut / KFC Aaron Tyler Hand 2024
Youth Langston Hughes 1925
Ode to Butter Beth Ann Fennelly 2020
Tall Ideas Adam Wolfond 2019
Father replays the funeral in Dream #28 Margo Tamez 2019
Cloth Birds Dorothy Tse 2019
Fractured Hali Sofala-Jones 2019
The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter Mary Jean Chan 2019
Essay on Reentry Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019
When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019
For a Bail Denied Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019
Blood History Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019
It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
The Prestige Hanif Abdurraqib 2019

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