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Xicano J. Michael Martinez 2010
The Sick Child Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
Fantasy Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Rock and Hawk Robinson Jeffers 1995
A Negro Love Song Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
Good Night Wilhelm Müller 2003
Old Story Catherine Barnett 2012
Queer Trivia Night Jenny Johnson 2026
To My Daughter’s Dead Name Lance Larsen 2025
The Sonnet in Drag Chris Watkins 2025
no one wants to be rough anymore Xan Forest Phillips 2024
Little Things Marion Strobel 1921
Gitanjali 6 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Virginia, Autumn Molly McCully Brown 2023
True Kindness Is a Pure Divine Affinity Henry David Thoreau 1943
Poem—To the Black Beloved Langston Hughes 1926
Appalling Heart Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 1920
Summer Magic Leslie Pinckney Hill 1922
Speaking of the future, Hamlet Mary Jo Bang 2020
Things That Are Changed—March, 2020 Kimiko Hahn 2020

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