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Title Author Year
The Slave Mother Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1854
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
Shiloh: A Requiem Herman Melville 1866
ghost ranch Kristin Lueke 2026
Late Bird Angela Narciso Torres 2026
To a Snowflake Francis Thompson 1897
From “This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay” Cody-Rose Clevidence 2023
Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare) José Olivarez 2023
Against Despair: The Kid Goat Nickole Brown 2018
The Treasure Robinson Jeffers 1925
Abomunist Manifesto Bob Kaufman 2019
For Mauna a Wākea Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio 2022
Patients Aurora Levins Morales 2013
Sea Calm Langston Hughes 1926
pantoum for aiyana & not a single hashtag Aurielle Marie 2021
The Tropics in New York Claude McKay 1922
Essay on Thunder Sumita Chakraborty 2020
This Body Renée Watson 2019
Maine Yet Miami Richard Blanco 2020
Testimony: 1968 Rita Dove 2020

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