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Title Author Year
[Oye! This is an apartment building ode.] Dimitri Reyes 2022
Caprice Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1920
Primordial Mirror Ama Codjoe 2021
Rainy Day Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1988
With the Lark Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
A Raft of Grief Chelsea Rathburn 2013
Sonnet III: “Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring” Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
November Lynna Odel 2020
Love in the City José Martí 2002
When the Virus Comes Angelo Geter 2020
Flower Song / Flor y Canto / In Xochitl In Cuicatl Francisco X. Alarcón 1992
The Leopard Yusef Komunyakaa 2020
The Rainbow Effie Waller Smith 1909
women’s voting rights at one hundred (but who’s counting?) Evie Shockley 2020
Trayvon, Redux Rita Dove 2013
Summer Lightning Molly Fisk 2019
Ball’s Bluff Herman Melville 1866
Doing Rosmarie Waldrop 2016
The Little Garden Amy Lowell 2018
A Young Man Jericho Brown 2018

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