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Why I don’t write about George Floyd Toi Derricotte 2020
Measured Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon 2020
Afterward but not Afterword A. Van Jordan 2020
I Can’t Breathe Pamela Sneed 2020
We Drink at the Attenuation Well Porsha Olayiwola 2020
From “A Coda to History” Kwame Dawes, John Kinsella 2020
they need some of us to die Donte Collins 2020
In the Year of Permutations Mai Der Vang 2020
ars poetica Aldrin Regina Valdez 2020
All Souls Procession Brandon Shimoda 2020
The History of Silence Emmy Pérez 2016
November Emmy Pérez 2016
Mexican American Sublime Rodney Gomez 2020
The Spectacle Rodney Gomez 2020
Theories of Violence Rodney Gomez 2019
“All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes." Elizabeth Jacobson 2019
Blood Moon Elizabeth Jacobson 2019
The Cows Elizabeth Jacobson 2019
The Famous Tay Whale William McGonagall 1890
Third Georgic [Excerpt] Virgil 1697

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