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Title Author Year
Origin Story Leah Naomi Green 2021
In her mostly white town, an hour from Rocky Mountain National Park, a black poet considers centuries of protests against racialized violence Camille T. Dungy 2021
Near the End of April William Stanley Braithwaite 1904
Memory Is Blood Soluble Brian Sneeden 2021
Grief Dream Carol Muske-Dukes 2021
44 Questions to Ask While Bingeing Kemi Alabi 2021
iced out chain from the beauty supply by Halsted Indoor Mall Nate Marshall 2021
The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart Eloisa Amezcua 2021
Wild Turkey Heid E. Erdrich 2018
Random Thoughts of Her John Rollin Ridge 2020
Self-Portrait as the Changeling Halee Kirkwood 2020
From “Defacing the Monument” Susan Briante 2020
States of Decline Taylor Johnson 2019
November Lynna Odel 2020
Sunshine After Cloud Josephine D. Heard 1890
The Puppet-Player Angelina Weld Grimké 1923
Scar (audio only) Audre Lorde 1978
Notorious Porsha Olayiwola 2019
Prayer in the Strip Mall, Bangor, Maine Stuart Kestenbaum 2007
An Indian Love Song Bertrand N. O. Walker 1924

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