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Title Author Year
Alt-Nature [Excerpt] Saretta Morgan 2020
[My ancestors are empty words] Kerry Carnahan 2020
Returning Laura Tohe 2005
To Francisco X. Alarcón (1954–2016) Eduardo C. Corral 2020
The Aged Pilot Man Mark Twain 1872
In Pine, Arizona Ray Young Bear 2020
lake-loop Natalie Diaz 2020
Our Country Julia Ward Howe 1899
Time with Stevie Wonder in It Christopher Gilbert 1984
From “Grandmother’s Garden” Meena Alexander 2020
Found Fragment on Ambition David Tomas Martinez
Big Sky Domestic Meg Day 2017
The Courtship of Miles Standish Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2019
The Portent Herman Melville 1859
Long, Too Long America Walt Whitman
The Centenarian’s Story Walt Whitman
Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps Walt Whitman
Song of the Banner at Daybreak Walt Whitman
First O Songs for a Prelude Walt Whitman
Step Two: Higher Power Hala Alyan 2019

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