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Title Author Year
Man Hesitates but Life Urges D’Arcy McNickle 1926
God Was Willing Sis: I’m Home Mona Lisa Saloy 2022
Ecclesiastes: Thirteen-Year Cicada Marissa Davis 2022
sky hammer Julian Talamantez Brolaski 2022
The Dark Girl’s Rhyme Dorothy Parker 1926
The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer Hoa Nguyen 2021
Did anyone ever ask any one of Nikita’s daughters francine j. harris 2020
Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
Third Georgic [Excerpt] Virgil 1697
You Say You Said Marianne Moore 1918
Giveaway Kim Shuck 2019
From “Clarel” [Epilogue] Herman Melville 2019
The Door Nomi Stone 2018
Fannie Lou Hamer Kamilah Aisha Moon 2018
Ekphrasis on My Rapist's Wedding Dress torrin a. greathouse 2018
Town Watches Them Take Alfonso Ilya Kaminsky 2017
Vessels Paisley Rekdal 2016
The Documents Terence Winch 2014
Sky Burial Ron Koertge 2014
tomorrow I leave to El Paso, Texas Juan Felipe Herrera 2010

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