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Title Author Year
Weathering Hate Harryette Mullen 2023
Western Edge Carl Phillips 2023
A water woman has no body Lisa Ciccarello 2017
In California During the Gulf War Denise Levertov 1992
Haircut Elizabeth Alexander 1996
Do Not Run Farnaz Fatemi 2024
Litany Dorsía Smith Silva 2024
After the War: Purple Flowers Spilling from the Windows Linda Nemec Foster 2001
I Can’t Breathe Pamela Sneed 2020
Everything Exactly as It Seems Abigail Chabitnoy 2025
Lion Tina Chang 2022
Poem [Being walkers with the dawn and morning] Langston Hughes 1925
When the Virus Comes Angelo Geter 2020
The Function of Humor in the Neighborhood Allison Pitinii Davis 2020
Birdcall Alicia Ostriker 2005
Control Charif Shanahan 2023
Winter Light Irena Klepfisz 2022
Gahé Dzíł / Mountain Spirits Crisosto Apache 2022
A Sonnet [XXXIV] Charles Hamilton Sorley 1919
I guess it was my destiny to live so long June Jordan 2017

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