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Title Author Year
Deportation Brenda Cárdenas 2025
So Cruel Prison Henry Howard 1557
Bullets Still Don’t Have Names on Them Jennifer Bartell Boykin 2024
All-American Ghazal Dujie Tahat 2025
The Lord is American W. J. Lofton 2025
Ways to Measure Trees MaKshya Tolbert 2025
Hope Harriet Monroe 1892
Fear Liv Mammone 2024
In Summer Lord Alfred Douglas 1919
To Plant Again Simon J. Ortiz 2002
Gwendolyn Brooks Anthony Walton 2000
Invisible Work Kwoya Fagin Maples 2024
From “The Land” [Shepherds and stars are quiet with the hills] Vita Sackville-West 1926
If You Have Had Your Midnights Mari Evans 2007
God César Vallejo 1918
My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again Daisy Fried 2006
Chain Migration II: On Negations and Substitutions Oliver de la Paz 2023
Pilgrimage Bhanu Kapil 2023
Transformation Lewis Grandison Alexander 1926
On Endings & Longing Eunsong Kim 2020

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