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Emancipation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1890
[The whale already] Kimiko Hahn 2022
Sea Calm Langston Hughes 1926
My Father’s Accent Kaveh Akbar 2021
Harlem Wine Countee Cullen 1925
The Rules Leila Chatti 2019
if found, then measured Marcelo Hernandez Castillo 2019
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press (Sonnet 140) William Shakespeare 1904
Pain Scale Catherine Barnett 2018
What I Would Like to Grow in My Garden Katherine Riegel 2018
Soul Train Allison Joseph 2017
Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing Toi Derricotte 2012
Here Kim Addonizio 2016
Art Project: Earth Karen Skolfield 2016
Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging Carl Adamshick 2014
The Flight Sara Teasdale 1915
Each year Dora Malech 2010
Ophelia to the Court Meghan O’Rourke 2010
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone John Keats 1819

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