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Title Author Year
California Rafael Campo 2020
Disclosure Camisha L. Jones 2020
Nothingness Dawn Lundy Martin 2019
Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's funeral and Completed on the first Day of the New Year Dean Rader 2019
The Cabbage Butterfly Minnie Bruce Pratt 2018
In Each Look Our Years Edwin Torres 2017
Four Sonnets About Food Adrienne Su 2017
Morning Song Sara Teasdale 1920
Make Me Human or Give Me Death May Yang 2017
Calling on All Silent Minorities June Jordan 2017
The World We Want Is Us Alice Walker 2016
the bullet was a girl Danez Smith 2015
The Dream Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
The Living Beauty W. B. Yeats 1919
The Banjo Player Fenton Johnson 1922
Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot Jalal al-Din Rumi 1898
The Yellow Bittern (An Bunnan Bui) Cathal Bui Mac Giolla Gunna 1913
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand Walt Whitman 1891
Unbidden Rae Armantrout 2009
The Question Answered William Blake 1905

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