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Title Author Year
Green Shirt Naomi Shihab Nye 2022
Lament for Dark Peoples Langston Hughes 1926
Ka ‘Ōlelo Brandy Nālani McDougall 2020
Everything Needs Fixing Karla Cordero 2021
Ode to Sitting in a Booth Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2021
Villanelle Otto Leland Bohanan 1915
Amphibious Aimee Suzara 2020
To O. E. A. Claude McKay 1922
Farewell Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1895
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Seven of the ten things] Terrance Hayes 2019
Billy in the Darbies Herman Melville 1924
Not the Pilot Walt Whitman
But be contented: when that fell arrest (Sonnet 74) William Shakespeare 1904
Drifting Flowers of the Sea Sadakichi Hartmann 2018
The Generations of Men Robert Frost 2018
Sorrows of Werther William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
The Little Garden Amy Lowell 2018
The Gray Heron Galway Kinnell 2018
I know crips live here Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
In the Beginning God Said Light Mary Szybist 2018

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