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Title Author Year
Slim Greer in Hell Sterling A. Brown 1980
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] Theodore Roethke 1961
Helen in Egypt, Eidolon, Book III: 4 H.D. 1982
How to Take a Life Janel Pineda 2026
Late Bird Angela Narciso Torres 2026
Morning After The Election Regie Cabico 2024
The neurologist gives us permission Seema Reza 2024
To a Snowflake Francis Thompson 1897
Beatitude John Keene 2021
All Souls’ Day in a German Town Margaret Fairless Barber 1903
The New Remorse Oscar Wilde 1887
Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare) José Olivarez 2023
Mirage Luis G. Dato 1926
To a Young Dancing Girl Elsa Gidlow 1923
The Tropics in New York Claude McKay 1922
Testimony: 1968 Rita Dove 2020
Music Alice Cary 1903
Skin-Light Natalie Diaz 2018
A Valentine Edgar Allan Poe 2018

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