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Title Author Year
My Life Is a Memory Rafael Arévalo Martínez 1916
from “Consequences of a Heavy Heart” Jennifer Firestone 2022
Ghosting Aubade Amie Whittemore 2018
Dust Alfred Kreymborg 1920
Gaman: Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah Kenji C. Liu 2019
Mosquito Alex Lemon 2018
The Kisser's Handbook Joseph O. Legaspi 2018
[Ask the lightning] Hafsa bint al-Hajj Arrakuniyya 1991
[In my heart’s a burning] Ulayya bint al-Mahdi 2026
Joan of England in Bordeaux, 1348 Paisley Rekdal 2024
Onanism Debra Weinstein 1996
Skin and Bones Erin Elizabeth Smith 2022
Aubade: Nocturne Willie Lee Kinard III 2023
our general banality fahima ife 2022
Dear Birmingham Gabrielle Bates 2021
a feeling has passed before a charted present Kimberly Alidio 2021
Ficus Ruth Madievsky 2019
To Bring the Horse Home Julie Bruck 2015
Middle School Dance Nicole Tallman 2025
[I keep his name] Ulayya bint al-Mahdi 2026

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