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Title Author Year
The Genie Speaks Nathan Spoon 2023
Selkie Weaning Young (Redux) Diana Khoi Nguyen 2023
The Negro Soldiers Roscoe C. Jamison 1922
to approach Roque Raquel Salas Rivera 2022
My Local Dead Mark Wunderlich 2022
Identity & Community (There is no “I” in “Sea”) Brenda Shaughnessy 2019
We Drink at the Attenuation Well Porsha Olayiwola 2020
The Electric Slide is Not a Dance, Man! Porsha Olayiwola 2019
Civil War Rosemarie Dombrowski 2017
Artifacts on a Hanging Tree, Goliad, Texas (a series of 70 Mexican Lynchings, 1857) Anthony Cody 2020
Struggle Itself Cedar Sigo 2020
Waiting for a Number Peter Balakian 2020
Voting-Machine Maggie Smith 2020
Where I Am Not Omar Sakr 2019
No, Kanye, it’s not LIKE we’re mentally in prison Erica Dawson 2019
The Red Flower Henry van Dyke 2018
About this Poem Richard Jackson 1992
Sunrise Manuel Iris 2026
He Wrote the History Book Marianne Moore 1924
Jesus in the Wilderness Malika Booker 2024

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