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Title Author Year
Drought Essay Isabel Neal 2023
Gitanjali 67 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
To Melody George Leonard Allen 1927
From the Dark Tower Countee Cullen 1927
For the Candlelight Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
Letter Joseph Fasano 2018
I Want Nothing Hieu Minh Nguyen 2014
Feti’s Border Crossing Alan Michael Parker 2022
Paul Laurence Dunbar James D. Corrothers 1922
Comparison Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Chant for Dark Hours Dorothy Parker 1926
Lament for Dark Peoples Langston Hughes 1926
The Song of the Smoke W. E. B. Du Bois 1914
Having a Fight With You Patrick Phillips 2022
A Prayer Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
(De)colonial Therapy Esther Belin 2021
My Mother Claude McKay 1922
Monotony Langston Hughes 1923
The blue nightgown Toi Derricotte 2021
When The Patient Asked For A White Doctor Seema Yasmin

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