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Title Author Year
November Night Adelaide Crapsey 1915
For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella Ariana Brown 2022
There was earth inside them Paul Celan 2020
A Journey Nikki Giovanni 2016
Love Opened a Mortal Wound Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1997
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens) Craig Santos Perez 2017
My Lover Is a Woman Pat Parker 2016
Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever] John Keats 1818
Self-Compassion James Crews 2021
Poem for South African Women June Jordan 2017
My Skeleton Jane Hirshfield 2013
To the Film Industry in Crisis Frank O’Hara 1957
The Land of Story-books Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Quilts Nikki Giovanni 2004
The Gift of India Sarojini Naidu 1917
Omens Cecilia Llompart 2016
A Noiseless Patient Spider Walt Whitman 1891
I Shall Return Claude McKay 1922
Characteristics of Life Camille T. Dungy 2012
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne] William Shakespeare 1623

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