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Hope Theodore Henry Shackelford 1918
Martine Syms, Incense, Sweaters, and Ice, 2017, 1:09:00 Anaïs Duplan 2018
Becoming a Ghost Tanaya Winder 2020
States of Decline Taylor Johnson 2019
Again it is September Jessie Redmon Fauset 1917
For my Brother(s) Lauren K. Alleyne 2020
Color Tina Chang 2019
The End of a Nation Don Mee Choi 2020
Waiting for a Number Peter Balakian 2020
women’s voting rights at one hundred (but who’s counting?) Evie Shockley 2020
Foley Catheter Kimberly Johnson 2020
Hello Sean Hill 2019
Small Craft Talk Warning Dean Young 2019
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [When James Baldwin & Audre Lorde each lend] Terrance Hayes 2019
Separation Wall Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
Black Snow [I came home] Carl Adamshick 2019
Song of the Open Road, 14 Walt Whitman 1891
The Poet and His Song Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
The forward violet thus did I chide: (Sonnet 99) William Shakespeare 1904
My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still (Sonnet 85) William Shakespeare 1904

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