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Title Author Year
“The world is a beautiful place” Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2017
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
A Brief History of Hostility Jamaal May 2017
Vaccinated Jericho Brown 2021
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth] William Shakespeare 2016
Octavia E. Butler: Electric Energy Crossing Time Sehba Sarwar 2025
Self-Portrait as Hereboy, Sethe’s Dog in Beloved Saeed Jones 2025
How To Orchestrate A Genocide Raffi Joe Wartanian 2025
Veterans Day Assembly Dujie Tahat 2020
Balikbayan In Praise Of Impending Irreversible Ecological Disaster Dujie Tahat 2022
A Dictionary of Having Been Prey in the Voice of the Grandmother Jennifer Militello 2016
The Colosseum Diana Arterian 2025
Pilate ponders where she belongs Hílda Davis 2025
returning Brandy Nālani McDougall 2025
The Poems Repeat as Dreams as Tears Vievee Francis 2025
To Whom Should We Recite the Time? Nasser Rabah 2025
Untitled Nasser Rabah 2025
Small Fragments Nasser Rabah 2025
Learn Your Song Gabriel Ramirez 2025
American Abyss Cynthia Dewi Oka 2025

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