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Title Author Year
Point of View Where Orpheus Makes a Pit Stop at a Fortune Teller in St. Germain Carlie Hoffman 2024
A Welcome Joanna Klink 2024
Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home) Patrick Rosal 2024
living on marble street in the ’70s María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado 2022
Genius Loci Sir Geoffrey Hill 2024
Lenoir Jericho Brown 2023
Decolonialish Self-Portrait Sara Borjas 2023
Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, IV Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer 1891
The Tell-Tale Heart Carlos Soto-Román 2023
Unspooled Carla Rachel Sameth 2021
My Mom’s Been Asking for a Happy Poem All My Life Jennifer Givhan 2023
哀 / Sad Paisley Rekdal 2023
The Bells Guillaume Apollinaire 1913
yes the business folk José Olivarez 2023
Preparing for Residential Placement for My Disabled Daughter Jennifer Franklin 2023
Transformation Lewis Grandison Alexander 1926
The Return Arna Bontemps 1927
When the Green Lies over the Earth Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
Advice Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
From the Dark Tower Countee Cullen 1927

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