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Title Author Year
Logically, I Know the Circus Paige Lewis 2021
Origin Story Leah Naomi Green 2021
Dear Fox Lucille Clifton 1996
Fruit of the Flower Countee Cullen 1925
Skin Tight Ishmael Reed 2021
The Protected Sex Alice Duer Miller 1915
women’s voting rights at one hundred (but who’s counting?) Evie Shockley 2020
What’s Left Behind After a Hawk Has Seized a Smaller Bird Midair Justin Phillip Reed 2020
My Mother and Lucille Clifton Have Tea Parneshia Jones 2019
Prompts (for High School Teachers Who Write Poetry) Dante Di Stefano 2019
O’ Noblesse O’ Nikky Finney 2019
A Reading from the Book of Exile Pádraig Ó Tuama 2019
O, how I faint when I of you do write (Sonnet 80) William Shakespeare 1904
O, how thy worth with manners may I sing (Sonnet 39) William Shakespeare 1904
Unsolved John McCrae 2018
Drifting Flowers of the Sea Sadakichi Hartmann 2018
Sence you went away James Weldon Johnson 1922
Marriage Nicole Callihan 2018
Old Arrivals Galway Kinnell 2018
The Word Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1906

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