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Title Author Year
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window W. B. Yeats 1924
Gahé Dzíł / Mountain Spirits Crisosto Apache 2022
Lies I Tell Sara Borjas 2018
Bringing the Shovel Down Ross Gay 2016
The Earthlings Matthew Olzmann 2023
Prayer of the Backhanded Jericho Brown 2016
Black Girls Rising Renée Watson 2017
the bullet was a girl Danez Smith 2015
Acknowledgement of Lenape Lands Denise Low 2024
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72 Charles Harper Webb 2010
Time-Sensitive Franny Choi 2023
I Can’t Breathe Pamela Sneed 2020
The End of a Nation Don Mee Choi 2020
Buffalograss Jake Skeets 2019
Bleeding May Swenson 2016
On Time Tanka June Jordan 2021
juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet Danez Smith 2016
The Shark Lord Alfred Douglas 1897
23 Reasons Why Mexicanos Can Still Be Found in a Walmart Alessandra Narváez Varela 2021

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