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Title Author Year
The Problem Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
The Slave Mother Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1854
[Someone running with his head aflame …] Daniel Lipara 2026
How to Take a Life Janel Pineda 2026
Standup Sonnet Zeina Hashem Beck 2025
Freedom and Truth Margaret Fuller 1859
My Grandmother’s Love Letters Christian Campbell 2025
Foreign Body Kimiko Hahn 2017
Gitanjali 4 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Autumn Maeng Sa-song 1965
The Flight of the Crows Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Canada Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Abomunist Manifesto Bob Kaufman 2019
The Feet of Judas George Marion McClellan 1922
A Drowsy Day Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Sick4Sick torrin a. greathouse 2022
What of Fire? Marcus Jackson 2021
Southern Mansion Arna Bontemps 1922
How Music Stays in the Body Lee Herrick 2018
The British Prison Ship Philip Freneau 1780

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