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Title Author Year
Eliza Harris Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1857
The Rats Keetje Kuipers 2019
Tall Ideas Adam Wolfond 2019
who will be the messenger of this land Jaki Shelton Green 2019
Nothingness Dawn Lundy Martin 2019
The Portent Herman Melville 1859
Independence Henry David Thoreau 1895
Sic Vita Henry David Thoreau 2019
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown Walt Whitman
Aspiration Adah Isaacs Menken 1868
Maid Poem #7: HR Jan-Henry Gray 2016
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [When James Baldwin & Audre Lorde each lend] Terrance Hayes 2019
Cloud Hands Arthur Sze 2019
You Lose Something Every Day Willie Perdomo 2019
Freedom Saadi Youssef 2019
Letting the Emptiness Become My Government Marcus Jackson 2019
A Far Rockaway of the Heart, 2 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1997
Lottery Kristin Robertson 2019
Not Yet Pádraig Ó Tuama 2019
Song of Myself, 41 Walt Whitman 1891

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