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Title Author Year
Shedding Skin Harryette Mullen 1981
His Excuse for Loving Ben Jonson 1640
Water Picture May Swenson 1994
Immigrant Song at a Food Truck Weijia Pan 2025
Let No Charitable Hope Elinor Wylie 2023
Blood Sex Crystal Valentine 2023
Gitanjali 8 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Ecstasy Gabriela Mistral 1925
We Used Our Words We Used What Words We Had Franny Choi 2022
Twilight Hours Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
Poem—To the Black Beloved Langston Hughes 1926
Young Prostitute Langston Hughes 1926
Vaccinated Jericho Brown 2021
After Many Springs Langston Hughes 1926
Insomniami Ariel Francisco 2021
Ship of Theseus Rodney Gomez 2021
Becoming a Ghost Tanaya Winder 2020
Everything is Different Paul Celan 2020
Morning Paul Laurence Dunbar 1905
The Hunter’s Wooing Ruth Muskrat Bronson 1921

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