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Title Author Year
Elegy Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2016
A Theory of Violence Jennifer Perrine 2016
In Aporia Akilah Oliver 2009
The Fifth Dream: Bullets and Deserts and Borders Benjamin Alire Sáenz 2006
Baba’s Home is the Sound of a Distant Thundering Raffi Joe Wartanian 2026
Wanted Lee A. Tonouchi 2023
Enter Terror Dalia Taha 2025
Correspondence with Apologies Lena Khalaf Tuffaha 2025
Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things Poupeh Missaghi 2025
We Live We Live Brandy Nālani McDougall 2024
Try to Remember that South African Man John Keene 2021
Beach Landing, Iwo Jima Tony Barnstone 2009
The Tragedy of Pete Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. 1927
Ars Poetica Nabila Lovelace 2023
Wild Thing Nickole Brown 2018
The Bird-Choros of Ion Euripides 1924
The Rivals Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Hope is a Bruise Dasha Kelly Hamilton 2021
Advice for Using Blood in a Poem Albert Abonado 2021
In the Middle of the Burning Canisia Lubrin 2020

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