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Title Author Year
Flame-Heart Claude McKay 2016
Prayer at Sunrise James Weldon Johnson 2015
Of the Surface of Things Wallace Stevens 1919
Blue Dementia Yusef Komunyakaa 2011
Ghost in the Land of Skeletons Christopher Kennedy 2011
What the Angels Left Marie Howe 1988
To Fanny John Keats 1848
In Memoriam, Epilogue, [O true and tried, so well and long] Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1850
Snow Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
Hellish Night Arthur Rimbaud 1991
Starlight William Meredith 1997
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
The Means to Attain Happy Life Martial 2026
There are inanimate things out there loving each other francine j. harris 2025
finding tomorrow m.s. RedCherries 2024
Mother's Rules Yalie Saweda Kamara 2016
Gitanjali 57 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Gitanjali 96 Rabindranath Tagore
Lion Tina Chang 2022
Little Matrons Su Hwang 2022

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