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Title Author Year
Black Mother Woman (audio only) Audre Lorde 1973
Fingernails Ken Chen 2020
The Famous Tay Whale William McGonagall 1890
Third Georgic [Excerpt] Virgil 1697
Tired Fenton Johnson 1920
Salutations to a Mouse Marsden Hartley 1920
On Growth Rae Armantrout 2020
The Poem You’ve Been Waiting For Tarfia Faizullah 2016
The Want of You Angelina Weld Grimké 1923
Ode to the Whitman Line “When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d” Kimiko Hahn 2019
Octopus Empire Marilyn Nelson 2019
Raindrops Mrs. Minot Carter 1922
"That Blessed Hope" Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1846
You Say You Said Marianne Moore 1918
Giveaway Kim Shuck 2019
My Mother and Lucille Clifton Have Tea Parneshia Jones 2019
From “Clarel” [Epilogue] Herman Melville 2019
Flyover Country Caki Wilkinson 2019
At the Door Eugene Field 1889
Writing Home Wendy Xu 2018

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