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Title Author Year
dream where every black person is standing by the ocean Danez Smith 2022
Dangerous for Girls Connie Voisine 2008
On the Mississippi Hamlin Garland 1893
Black Parade Darrel Alejandro Holnes 2020
The Aged Pilot Man Mark Twain 1872
The Portent Herman Melville 1859
The Centenarian’s Story Walt Whitman
from "Like Nebraska" Sophie Klahr 2019
Haiku Ray McNiece 2004
Congregation Parneshia Jones 2014
Syracuse, October Grady Chambers 2018
Returning Laura Tohe 2005
Model-Train Display at Christmas in a Shopping Mall Food Court James Arthur 2019
California Plush Frank Bidart 1973
1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed LeAnne Howe 2020
Aura Natalie Scenters-Zapico 2026
Americano Emanuel Xavier 2002
My House Claude McKay 1927
Mountain Pines Robinson Jeffers 1904
Wild Horses Drink from the River of History Lois Roma-Deeley 2022

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