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Title Author Year
not an elegy for Mike Brown Danez Smith 2016
The Prestige Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
Harlem: The Black City Fenton Johnson 1916
From “Simple Verses” José Martí 2005
Negro Langston Hughes 1922
Love Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1870
On Teaching Kahlil Gibran 1923
Richard Cory Edwin Arlington Robinson 1897
Your Catfish Friend Richard Brautigan 1989
Why We Oppose Pockets for Women Alice Duer Miller 1915
For My People Margaret Walker 2017
One Boy Told Me Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
Relax Ellen Bass 2014
Mutability Percy Bysshe Shelley 1816
Spleen Charles Baudelaire 1982
Afternoon on a Hill Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
Requiescat Oscar Wilde 2018
Their Pasts Ama Codjoe 2026
Descendancy Denise Low 2024
Instead of Depression Andrea Gibson 2021

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