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I Have Stood Up for You Carlos Montezuma 1919
Fantasy in Purple Langston Hughes 1922
Blues Fantasy Langston Hughes 1926
Sea Calm Langston Hughes 1926
Enslaved Claude McKay 1922
My Father’s Accent Kaveh Akbar 2021
Harlem Wine Countee Cullen 1925
The British Prison Ship Philip Freneau 1780
Let Me Not Lose My Dream Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Breathe. As in. (shadow) Rosamond S. King 2019
You don't love me, you say, and deflate Gala Mukomolova 2019
I Have Read the Whole Moon Emily Skaja 2019
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
The Morning After Ellen Bass 2014
Against that time, if ever that time come (Sonnet 49) William Shakespeare 1904
Convalescence Amy Lowell 2018
Love and a Question Robert Frost 2018
What I Would Like to Grow in My Garden Katherine Riegel 2018
Water in Love Ed Bok Lee 2018
Not Doing Something Wrong Isn't the Same as Doing Something Right Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz 2017

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