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Spring Thunder Mark Van Doren 1924
Home, Sweet Home Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
How the Stars Understand Us Christopher Gilbert 1984
To the Indifferent Women Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Belladonna of Sadness Sally Wen Mao 2019
i know the grandmother one had hands Jaki Shelton Green 2019
Essay on Reentry Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019
White Chairs Krystyna Dąbrowska, Karen Kovacik 2019
No, Kanye, it’s not LIKE we’re mentally in prison Erica Dawson 2019
Song of Myself, 35 Walt Whitman 1891
Beehive Jean Toomer 1923
What potions have I drunk of Siren tears (Sonnet 119) William Shakespeare 1904
That god forbid that made me first your slave (Sonnet 58) William Shakespeare 1904
rite Anne Waldman 2018
Goat on a Pile of Scrap Lumber Michael Collier 2018
Sculpture with Fragments of Stuart Hall Christian Campbell 2018
The Broken Man’s Permission Aaron Coleman 2018
White Boy Time Machine: Override Hieu Minh Nguyen 2018
Self-Portrait as C-Section Scar Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
Origin Story Jenny Xie 2018

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