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Title Author Year
Why Do You Love the Poem? Charles Bernstein 2022
The Moving Truck Poem Andru Defeye 2017
Un Mango Grows in Kansas Huascar Medina 2020
Preparation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
I Know I Have Been Happiest Dorothy Parker 1926
The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon Patricia Smith 2022
Black Dandelion Semaj Brown 2019
March Moon Langston Hughes 1926
Port Town Langston Hughes 1926
Water Front Streets Langston Hughes 1926
Childhood Elegy Joseph O. Legaspi 2007
To My Friends Countee Cullen 1925
Promise Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Serenity Charles Bertram Johnson 1918
Hickory Street, New Orleans Yona Harvey 2020
Evolution Margaret Ross 2020
Free Kevin Killian 2008
ars pasifika Craig Santos Perez 2020
Sonnet XLIV [For Thee the Sun Doth Daily Rise, and Set] George Santayana 1896
The Belladonna of Sadness Sally Wen Mao 2019

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