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Title Author Year
Birds in Flight, 1965 Enrique Villasis 2020
The Plains of Peace Olivia Ward Bush-Banks 1914
This Little Light of Mine Speaks Crystal Valentine 2020
Douce Souvenance Jessie Redmon Fauset 1920
Power (audio only) Audre Lorde 1978
Black Mother Woman (audio only) Audre Lorde 1973
Supplication Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. 1922
The Famous Tay Whale William McGonagall 1890
The Old Suffragist Margaret Widdemer 1915
Assurance James Oppenheim 1924
The Poem You’ve Been Waiting For Tarfia Faizullah 2016
Our Idea of Nothing at All Alice Duer Miller 1915
A Walk Round the Park Sandra Lim 2019
Raindrops Mrs. Minot Carter 1922
The Socialist and the Suffragist Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Tall Ideas Adam Wolfond 2019
Smuggling Cherokee Kim Shuck 2019
For a Bail Denied Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019
From “Clarel” [The Hostel] Herman Melville 1876
The Armies of the Wilderness Herman Melville 1864

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