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Title Author Year
“Stop. Go put your shoes back on. They’ll know we Okies,” a Lost Image Reclamation Anthony Cody 2022
How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter, Lauren K. Alleyne 2022
The Weavers Were the First to Know Arielle Taitano Lowe 2022
Booker T. And W.E.B. Dudley Randall 2009
Sunset Effie Lee Newsome 1923
California Rafael Campo 2020
Serepta Mason Edgar Lee Masters 1915
A Painter’s Thoughts John Yau 2020
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Songs (VI) E. E. Cummings 1925
At the Door Eugene Field 1889
The Cabbage Butterfly Minnie Bruce Pratt 2018
Ethel’s Sestina Patricia Smith 2018
Questions Rachel Richardson 2018
The Past Suffers Too Ben Purkert 2018
Two Set Out on Their Journey Galway Kinnell 2018
Swans Sara Teasdale 1915
Pedestrian Samuel Amadon 2017
Calling on All Silent Minorities June Jordan 2017
FaceTime Clint Smith 2017

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