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Title Author Year
Tower of Babel Orlando Ricardo Menes 2021
Life is a Place Where it’s Forbidden to Live Jackie Wang 2021
Serenity Charles Bertram Johnson 1918
On Broadway Claude McKay 1922
eat Roscoe Burnems 2018
Torch Deborah A. Miranda 2021
The blue nightgown Toi Derricotte 2021
Hickory Street, New Orleans Yona Harvey 2020
Truth Giannina Braschi 1981
Woman in Dub Desiree C. Bailey 2020
Go Give the World Otto Leland Bohanan 1919
Emancipation Priscilla Jane Thompson 1907
Free Kevin Killian 2008
Power (audio only) Audre Lorde 1978
Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter John Crowe Ransom 1923
Lightning Witter Bynner 1920
the pomegranate’s decimation Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen 2020
Our Country Julia Ward Howe 1899
[Ah! the waving lespedeza,] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Words Jane Hirshfield 2020

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