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Title Author Year
[The lamp is like a capsized ship]: Two Voices Muse over the Speaker Alessandra Lynch 2024
Epithalamium Anthony Walton 2019
Postcolonial Anthony Walton 2001
Incognito Grief: A Blues Allison Joseph 2024
Everybody’s Autobiography Tracy K. Smith 2024
The Octoroon Georgia Douglas Johnson 1923
To the Air Myronn Hardy 2024
And You . . . Jason Allen-Paisant 2024
Ore’yomo (Two) Mikeas Sánchez 2024
The Empty Apartment Tony Barnstone 2014
Agitated Air [what it would mean to move] Yasmine Seale 2022
Snake-Jawed Epithalamium Kelly Weber 2023
Nostalgia Matthew Minicucci 2023
The Indian’s Awakening Zitkála-Šá 1916
Injury Room Katie Ford 2023
Grow Ruth Ellen Kocher 2023
Once I Was in Love Jen Levitt 2023
Distant Footsteps César Vallejo 1918
[I wonder where is all my relation] David Drake 1857
My Poem Asks to Be Read Right to Left Catherine Chen 2023

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