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Title Author Year
Black Dandelion Semaj Brown 2019
Winter Moon Langston Hughes 1926
A Distant Song John Gould Fletcher 1913
Promise Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Baptism Claude McKay 1925
Escape Georgia Douglas Johnson 1925
Near the End of April William Stanley Braithwaite 1904
Winter to Spring Irvin W. Underhill 1916
Naming the Baby Yesenia Montilla 2021
What Schools Don’t Teach Black Boys in America Today John Warner Smith 2021
Hope Theodore Henry Shackelford 1918
A Song of Hope Charles Bertram Johnson 1921
Martine Syms, Incense, Sweaters, and Ice, 2017, 1:09:00 Anaïs Duplan 2018
Song for Baby-O, Unborn Diane di Prima 1990
Polycystic Study of Intimacy Aricka Foreman 2020
Becoming a Ghost Tanaya Winder 2020
September 11 Giannina Braschi 2001
Hysterical Strength Nicole Sealey 2017
Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
Through Time and Bitter Distance Emily Pauline Johnson 1912

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