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Title Author Year
Epithalamium, [Happy Bridegroom] Sappho 1922
The Bear Galway Kinnell 2000
Frederick Douglass Paul Laurence Dunbar 1895
Latinx Is Emanuel Xavier 2023
Alchemy Horse Natalie Diaz 2023
from “Parallax” Nancy Cunard 1925
Nocturne Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
Waiting for Your Call Aria Aber 2021
Free Labor Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1857
Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor) Tara Hardy 2020
The Conflict of Convictions Herman Melville 1860
Apologia Pro Poemate Meo Wilfred Owen 2018
I Could Be a Whale Shark Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
breaking away to the u.s. José B. González 2017
My Friends Ali Power 2017
Little Father Li-Young Lee 2001
Left Nikky Finney 2011
sorrows Lucille Clifton 2009
The Abduction Stanley Kunitz 1985
Lucinda Matlock Edgar Lee Masters 1915

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