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Title Author Year
When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019
Ȟe Sápa, Two Layli Long Soldier 2017
Self-Portrait in Charleston, Orlando Dean Rader 2016
Chaos Is the New Calm Wyn Cooper 2010
Terzanelle: Manzanar Riot Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan 2008
To Military Progress Marianne Moore 1924
Blood/Soil Divya Victor 2021
wishing Jaki Shelton Green 2019
Let Us Go Then Ciaran Carson 2010
An Easy-Goin’ Feller Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
From “Autobiography of My Alter Ego” Yusef Komunyakaa 2022
on empathy Bettina Judd 2020
The Pigeons Rose from the Floor of the Earth; A Clamoring of Wings to Disturb the Silence Matthew Shenoda 2026
I Have Seen Nancy Mercado 2000
The Hills are Writing Isha Camara 2024
On the Good Ship Elijah McClain Nikky Finney 2023
Inspiration Taneum Bambrick 2022
Mourning Birds Erica Hunt 2020
mountain language Öykü Tekten 2020
Ask the Locals Monica Sok 2018

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