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Title Author Year
The Optimist J. W. Hammond 2020
Nothing Krysten Hill 2020
Southern Mansion Arna Bontemps 1922
Underground King Derrick Harriell 2020
To a Rosebud Eva A. Jessye 2020
Why I don’t write about George Floyd Toi Derricotte 2020
Every Verb is a Lesson in Longing or Dread April Freely 2020
Glory Gbenga Adesina 2020
To a Skull Joshua Henry Jones Jr. 1922
Measured Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon 2020
The Lynching Claude McKay 1922
My City James Weldon Johnson 1922
I Can’t Breathe Pamela Sneed 2020
For Black Children at the End of the World—and the Beginning Roger Reeves 2020
Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
Time to Die Raymond Garfield Dandridge 1922
From “A Coda to History” Kwame Dawes, John Kinsella 2020
they need some of us to die Donte Collins 2020
From “Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters” Yusef Komunyakaa, Laren McClung 2020
The Door into Darkness Kevin Killian 1997

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