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Title Author Year
Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy Terrance Hayes 2010
Harlem Shadows Claude McKay 1921
Nothing in That Drawer Ron Padgett 1990
Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames] Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2007
sorrows Lucille Clifton 2009
Streets Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés 1922
The Lynching Claude McKay 1922
The Seasons Moralized Philip Freneau 1785
Pictures of Memory Alice Cary 1903
In the old age black was not counted fair (Sonnet 127) William Shakespeare 1904
The Self-Unseeing Thomas Hardy 2018
The Candle Indoors Gerard Manley Hopkins 2016
Jenny Kiss'd Me Leigh Hunt 1838
To Fanny John Keats 1848
Epithalamium, [Happy Bridegroom] Sappho 1922
One-Word Poem David R. Slavitt 2006
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks Jane Kenyon 1986
[The rage that shatters a man into children,] César Vallejo 2026
On Growing Old John Masefield 1919

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