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Title Author Year
Dear America Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2016
Before Your Arrival Ellen Hagan 2016
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening] Claudia Rankine 2014
Blackbottom Toi Derricotte 2013
Names Fady Joudah 2014
Friendship After Love Ella Wheeler Wilcox 2014
Parties: A Hymn of Hate Dorothy Parker 1916
From “Please Bury Me in This” [Maybe my arms lifted ...] Allison Benis White 2013
from Manatee/Humanity [1] Anne Waldman 2009
Tender Buttons [A Little Called Pauline] Gertrude Stein 1914
Autumn Poem 2012 Hoa Nguyen 2013
The Balloon of the Mind W. B. Yeats 1919
Poem [This beauty that I see] James Schuyler 1993
After dark vapors have oppress’d our plains John Keats 1899
Blowjob (Vulgar Slang) (audio only) Sharon Olds 2011
Night Baseball Michael Blumenthal 1984
One Child Has Brown Eyes Marilyn Chin 2010
In Passing Stanley Plumly 2000
Hey You Adrian Blevins 2010
Negotiations with a Volcano Naomi Shihab Nye 1995

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