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Title Author Year
Beautiful Throat Bruce Smith 2018
Video: The Librarian Charles Olson 1966
The Dance of the Lambs and the Birds Ameen Animashaun 2025
Amto remembers Hussein, Aljibbayn 1983 Kamelya Omayma Youssef 2025
[Gaza has become a funeral home] Mosab Abu Toha 2025
After Youna Kwak 2025
without a word Trish Salah 2024
[American Journal] Alison C. Rollins 2024
“you don’t even know me/i’m hanging from a tree” Danez Smith 2022
Standing Dead Andrea Abi-Karam 2023
Exodus Effie Lee Newsome 1925
If You Tell It Backward Porsha Olayiwola 2021
Pegasus Autopsy Julio Pazos Barrera 2020
“All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.” Elizabeth Jacobson 2019
What’s Left Behind After a Hawk Has Seized a Smaller Bird Midair Justin Phillip Reed 2020
Taking the Poem from the Poet Devi S. Laskar 2019
The Hour Until We See You Brenda Hillman 2010
My Beloved Companion, Danielle Legros Georges 2025
Hanging Jerome Ellison Murphy 2023
Crypto-animist Introvert Activism Brenda Hillman 2018

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