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Title Author Year
When I Have Passed Away Claude McKay 1922
Advice to Youth Countee Cullen 1925
breathe we Juan Felipe Herrera 2020
[When I come home they rush to me, the flies] Aracelis Girmay 2020
[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial. Mikel on his last legs, covered] Diane Seuss 2019
Amores (V) E. E. Cummings 1923
The Ghost’s Petition Christina Rossetti 2018
Flowers and Bullets Martín Espada 2018
The Incomprehensibility Nick Flynn
The Branches Jean Valentine 2009
Correspondence with Apologies Lena Khalaf Tuffaha 2025
Algeria Emily Fragos 2025
Elegy for My Grandmother in the Form of a Cactus Julia Bouwsma 2023
The morning after I die Ana Blandiana 2022
Four Epitaphs Countee Cullen 1927
The Dream of the Anti-Ekphrasis Fargo Nissim Tbakhi 2022
The Start Matt Mason 2021
“So Quietly” Leslie Pinckney Hill 1922
Anne CMarie Fuhrman 2021
Ways to Disappear Camille Rankine 2021

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