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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
Emancipation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1890
The Cataclysm Ameen Rihani 1921
[The whale already] Kimiko Hahn 2022
Appalling Heart Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 1920
Enslaved Claude McKay 1922
Amphibious Aimee Suzara 2020
Little Lead Soldiers  Giannina Braschi 1988
The Murderess Alice Cary 1903
Yesterday and To-morrow Paul Laurence Dunbar 1905
O Claire Wahmanholm 2020
Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of my Fur Ellen Bass 2020
The Past Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
Had the Vines Budded, Were the Pomegranates in Bloom S. Brook Corfman 2019
Amores (I) E. E. Cummings 1923
Ah! wherefore with infection should he live (Sonnet 67) William Shakespeare 1904
Roses Only Marianne Moore 1921
Evergreen Oliver Baez Bendorf 2018
Thanksgiving in the Anthropocene, 2015 Craig Santos Perez 2017
The War in Colors Dunya Mikhail 2017

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