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Title Author Year
Taking Out the Trash Kamilah Aisha Moon 2018
Flowers and Bullets Martín Espada 2018
Burn Janice N. Harrington 2018
Written Deer Maggie Smith 2018
Self-Portrait as Cindy Sherman’s Instagram Account Elizabeth Knapp 2018
Rootless Jenny Xie 2018
Origin Story Jenny Xie 2018
Hide and Seek Charles Simic 2018
Friendship Maxwell Bodenheim
To the American People Richard Calmit Adams 2017
Villanelle Michael Luis Medrano 2017
Religious Instructions for Young Casualties Sandra María Esteves 2017
The Watchers John Greenleaf Whittier 2017
Deception Story Solmaz Sharif 2017
Twentieth Century Maggie Smith 2017
Villanelle with Violin Marilyn Krysl 2017
Exceeding Beringia Joan Naviyuk Kane 2016
Pilate’s Wife’s Dream Charlotte Brontë 1846
I Do Sjohnna McCray 2015
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening] Claudia Rankine 2014

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