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Title Author Year
The Acceptance Raymond Antrobus 2020
The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon Patricia Smith 2022
A Prayer Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
Drunktown Jake Skeets 2018
To My Friends Countee Cullen 1925
Life is a Place Where it’s Forbidden to Live Jackie Wang 2021
On Broadway Claude McKay 1922
Question [1] Langston Hughes 1922
Disintegrating Calculus Problem Mick Toma 2021
Gitanjali 83 Rabindranath Tagore 1914
Vanishing Brittney Corrigan 2021
Fox Lucille Clifton 1996
Realization Marilyn Nelson 2021
Nostalgia Giannina Braschi 1980
The Secret of Youth Micah Daniels 2020
Go Give the World Otto Leland Bohanan 1919
Emancipation Priscilla Jane Thompson 1907
The Famous Tay Whale William McGonagall 1890
Driving to Work is a Spiritual Experience Emily Kendal Frey 2020
[Ah! the waving lespedeza,] Matsuo Bashō 1899

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