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Title Author Year
The Lawyers' Ways Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
For a Magician Countee Cullen
The Day Room Dante Micheaux 2021
If You Tell It Backward Porsha Olayiwola 2021
From “Defacing the Monument” Susan Briante 2020
When I Became La Promesa Peggy Robles-Alvarado 2020
I Do Not Know the Spelling of Money Tongo Eisen-Martin 2020
YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PRISON! Sasha Debevec-McKenney 2020
From “Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters” Yusef Komunyakaa, Laren McClung 2020
For Assata (audio only) Audre Lorde 1978
Mexican American Sublime Rodney Gomez 2020
Thoughts in Jail Katharine Rolston Fisher 1918
To Sir Toby Philip Freneau 1795
The Miracle Fenton Johnson 1916
Essay on Reentry Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019
When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019
For a Bail Denied Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019
What We Cannot Hear Ilya Kaminsky 2019
Song of Myself, 37 Walt Whitman 1891
What Came Looking For Me Kevin Reese 2019

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