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Title Author Year
Starlight William Meredith 1997
In Jerusalem Mahmoud Darwish 2005
Kinky Denise Duhamel 1997
Ode on Periods Bernadette Mayer 1998
Do You Know What Today Is? Danez Smith 2026
Wait Until It Grows Roots Tarfia Faizullah 2025
finding tomorrow m.s. RedCherries 2024
Drill Jada Renée Allen 2024
Why I Needed To Richard Blanco 2023
A Mona Lisa Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
I Never Wanted to Die Dorianne Laux 2021
Singularity Marissa Davis 2020
If You Should Go Countee Cullen 1922
Jakarta, January Sarah Kay 2019
Femme Futures Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 2019
Christmas in the Heart Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
A Woman Sleeps on an Island Marjorie Agosín 2016
Complaint William Carlos Williams 1921
Canterbury Tales, General Prologue Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
The Descent of Alette [“I walked into”] Alice Notley 1992

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