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Title Author Year
This Has Always Been Our Active Shooter Drill Jason Reynolds 2018
A Brief Ontological Investigation Erika Meitner 2018
A Tempest in a Teacup A. Van Jordan 2018
The Knife Rodney Gomez 2018
Pity the Doctor, Not the Disease Erin Belieu 2018
It Was Summer Now and the Colored People Came Out Into the Sunshine Morgan Parker 2018
Untitled Jesús Castillo 2018
Children Listen Roger Reeves 2018
Pledge Wendy Xu 2018
Lines Composed at 34 North Park Street, on Certain Memories of My White Grandmother Who Loved Me and Hated Black People Like Myself. July 15, 2017 Shane McCrae 2018
Temple Example Sally Ball 2018
Speak Now, Or Forever. Hold Your Peace. Patricia Smith 2018
Brown Girl Has Walked Into the Wild, Palms Open Barbara Jane Reyes 2018
Before Marching, and After Thomas Hardy 1916
Defiant Patricia Spears Jones 2018
Boat Journey Ladan Osman 2018
Blossom Dorianne Laux 2018
Ritual Object Tsitsi Ella Jaji 2018
Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda— Cynthia Dewi Oka 2018
Mercy, Mercy, Me John Murillo 2018

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