Poems

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Title	Author	Year
Middle Passage	Robert Hayden	2017
For My People	Margaret Walker	2017
On Being Brought from Africa to America	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Let America Be America Again	Langston Hughes	1994
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto III, LI)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, XLVIII)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, XLV)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, XLI)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, XIX)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, VI)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, II)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, I)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, XLIX)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, XLVI)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, XXIX)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, XXXVIII)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, IX)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, XXVI)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
Caliban Theory	Malcolm Friend	2025
HOLYHEADHARRIET	Ashley M. Jones	2025

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