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Title Author Year
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
Planet Dread Safiya Sinclair 2023
Gitanjali 82 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Letters Found Near a Suicide Frank Horne 1927
The Dream of the Anti-Ekphrasis Fargo Nissim Tbakhi 2022
The Atom No. 18 Sarah Mangold 2022
Of a Certain Friendship Elsa Gidlow 1923
Appalling Heart Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 1920
Winter Moon Langston Hughes 1923
When Love Alicia Ostriker 2021
Venus & Serena Play Doubles on Center Court Kate Rushin 2020
Rain Music Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. 1922
Ink-Light Natalie Diaz 2020
Wild Horses Paisley Rekdal 2020
Land Where My Father Died Fatimah Asghar 2018
The World-Soul Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
Not the Pilot Walt Whitman
Circle Pádraig Ó Tuama 2019
Song of Myself, 40 Walt Whitman 1891
November Cotton Flower Jean Toomer 1923

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