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Title Author Year
Queer Trivia Night Jenny Johnson 2026
Alliterative Autobiography [Classroom] Adam Giannelli 2026
Once Tove Ditlevsen 2025
sueño convulso (seizure dream) Urayoán Noel 2024
Paról Feliz Lucia Molina 2024
  Oh! snatched away in Beauty's bloom Lord George Gordon Byron 1898
Mother Dear Claude McKay 1912
Blood Sex Crystal Valentine 2023
Alpha Jen Benka 2011
Mahler in New York Joseph Fasano 2013
A Song of Thanks Edward Smyth Jones 1922
Before Sleep Elsa Gidlow 1923
The Moonlight Yvor Winters 1924
True Kindness Is a Pure Divine Affinity Henry David Thoreau 1943
Shadow Bruce Nugent 1925
Young Prostitute Langston Hughes 1926
Fog Ruth Madievsky 2021
Angelhair Angela Jackson 1998
Villanelle Otto Leland Bohanan 1915
Hope. Alice Dunbar-Nelson 2020

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