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Title Author Year
brd Anthony Cody 2020
The Conflict of Convictions Herman Melville 1860
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful] al-Khansāʾ 1922
Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors Richard Siken 2014
And We Live On ... Refaat Alareer 2024
Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz Matthew Olzmann 2016
Rambling Afaa Michael Weaver 2007
How To Forgive Susan Nguyen 2022
A Thing That Happened Matt Mason 2020
playing with fire Evie Shockley 2011
Why I Don’t Mention Flowers When Conversations with My Brother Reach Uncomfortable Silences Natalie Diaz 2016
The Day-Breakers Arna Bontemps 1927
Grandfather A. Van Jordan 2022
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609
no one wants to be rough anymore Xan Forest Phillips 2024
The Battle-Field William Cullen Bryant 1878
Untitled Nasser Rabah 2025
Tenebris Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
They Keep Killing You, and It’s Always Yesterday Ann-Margaret Lim 2025
A Brief History of Hostility Jamaal May 2017

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