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[And I return to the field] Iain Haley Pollock 2026
Failed Poems Jessica Abughattas 2025
I Don’t Wish to be a Vampire Elaine Equi 2025
Fog Emma Lazarus 1889
Gitanjali 8 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
My House Claude McKay 1927
At the Spring Dawn Angelina Weld Grimké 1923
Young Prostitute Langston Hughes 1926
4. bell hooks 2012
Rainy Day Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1988
When Love Alicia Ostriker 2021
At Age 28, Chilean Astronomer Maritza Soto Has Already Discovered Three Planets Vincent Toro 2021
She Told Me the Earth Loves Us Anne Haven McDonnell 2020
To Sir Toby Philip Freneau 1795
women’s voting rights at one hundred (but who’s counting?) Evie Shockley 2020
Pillow Lee Young-ju, Jae Kim 2019
The Task of Naming Me Sharon Olds 2019
The Virus Jericho Brown 2019
November Cotton Flower Jean Toomer 1923
Lo! as a careful housewife run to catch (Sonnet 143) William Shakespeare 1904

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