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Title Author Year
i know the grandmother one had hands Jaki Shelton Green 2019
If— Rudyard Kipling 1910
Mother to Son Langston Hughes 1922
The Bearing Edge Ralph James Savarese 2023
You Must Lift Your Son’s Languid Body Oliver de la Paz 2023
Love Letter to a Burning World Carla Rachel Sameth 2021
Lullaby John James 2023
from “Giornata” Gregory Pardlo 2022
His Eye on The Sparrow Airea D. Matthews 2022
Milk Julia B. Levine 2022
Mothers Arrange Their Aches at Night Maya Abu Al-Hayyat 2022
To Any Reader Robert Louis Stevenson
Blessing Mihaela Moscaliuc 2021
Glossolalia Eugenia Leigh 2022
January 20, 2021 Jared Harél 2022
Memorial Hoops Reginald Dwayne Betts 2021
When your son abandons the lawnmower for the second time in as many days Peter Grandbois 2021
Blueberries for Cal Brenda Shaughnessy 2019
A Fairy Tale of Blackboyhood Dāshaun Washington 2021
Order Dan Rosenberg 2021

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