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Title Author Year
Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames] Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2007
Can You Feel the Native American in Me M. L. Smoker 2005
Olympia Henri Cole 2003
Home Norma Elia Cantú 2019
A Mona Lisa Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
The Day-Breakers Arna Bontemps 1927
The Night is Darkening Round Me Emily Brontë 1941
Good Grief KB Brookins 2022
[The faint shadow of the morning moon?] Yone Noguchi 1920
I Never Wanted to Die Dorianne Laux 2021
The Lynching Claude McKay 1922
Pestilence Philip Freneau 1795
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
The Self-Unseeing Thomas Hardy 2018
The Women’s Litany Margaret Widdemer 2018
On a Day, In the World Brenda Hillman 2018
The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born Nicole Sealey 2017
Practice Standing Unleashed and Clean Patricia Smith 2016
Modern Love John Keats 2016
ode to the puritan in me Ross Gay 2016

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