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Title Author Year
From “The World After Rain” Canisia Lubrin 2023
The Battle-Field William Cullen Bryant 1878
The Lost Bird Carolina Coronado 1878
A Thing That Happened Matt Mason 2020
Blues Fantasy Langston Hughes 1926
Aunt Sue’s Stories Langston Hughes 1926
More Than Something Else Rainy Dawn Ortiz 2020
Miracles Giannina Braschi 2011
Venus & Serena Play Doubles on Center Court Kate Rushin 2020
American Smooth Rita Dove 2006
if found, then measured Marcelo Hernandez Castillo 2019
Ongoing Jenny Xie 2018
Femme Futures Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 2019
Firing Squad Ilya Kaminsky 2018
Dear P. [If you are] Victoria Chang 2017
Meditation Charles Baudelaire 2017
Ballad of Forgotten Places Olga Orozco 2016
Audenesque Seamus Heaney 2016
Chess Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2015
Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea Cecilia Woloch 2010

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