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Title Author Year
Interrogation Suite: Where did you come from / how did you arrive? Remica Bingham-Risher 2019
Karl Lagerfeld’s line of beauty Tommye Blount 2025
Song of Myself, 20 Walt Whitman 1891
On Possession torrin a. greathouse 2021
Poem for South African Women June Jordan 2017
My Hole. My Whole. Sam Sax 2024
Dysphoria Oliver Baez Bendorf 2020
Daughter Gabrielle Bates 2026
My Skeleton Jane Hirshfield 2013
The Habit of Perfection Gerard Manley Hopkins 1916
Pedal Jenny Johnson 2020
Against Dying Kaveh Akbar 2017
Song of Myself, 31 Walt Whitman 1891
Self-Compassion James Crews 2021
“What Do Women Want?” Kim Addonizio 2000
It Is Important To Be Something Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2018
On the One Hand Megan Fernandes 2025
Danse Russe William Carlos Williams 1962
Love Opened a Mortal Wound Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1997
How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This Hanif Abdurraqib 2018

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