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Title Author Year
Artist Statement Tarik Dobbs 2024
I wake at dawn to glimpse my barren chest and speak to the children I won’t birth. Spencer Williams 2024
Third Grade Georgia A. Popoff 2024
tempo Ilyus Evander 2024
Prometheus George Gordon Byron 1898
The Consolation Anne Brontë 1920
The Heart Recalcitrant Leonora Speyer 1921
A Fool, A Foul Thing, A Distressful Lunatic Marianne Moore 1924
Solstice Re-pot Shailja Patel 2024
Griot of Strange Places Romeo Oriogun 2024
[When she was fenced off even from herself] Yerra Sugarman 2022
Kaōnōn Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner 2024
Default Taupou Grace Iwashita-Taylor 2024
Spiral Hari Alluri 2024
Public Speech Susan Tichy 2024
17 Kinds of Hungry Adrian Matejka 2024
From “Muʻallaqāt” [Canst thou make me immortal] Tarafa 1922
The Good Willis Barnstone 2015
Spirit Has a Beginning Willis Barnstone 2015
Giving a Watch Life Willis Barnstone 2015

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