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Title Author Year
i take my glasses off Lucille Clifton 2026
Goodness Afaa Michael Weaver 2026
As Time Goes By Billy Collins 2025
Old England Claude McKay 1912
Drops Fell on the Roof Ana Castillo 2021
The Sunset and the Purple-Flowered Tree Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2022
Love By The Sea #1 Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
Patients Aurora Levins Morales 2013
Sea Calm Langston Hughes 1926
Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on Their Butts Luisa A. Igloria 2021
Cassette County David Berman 2003
Love in Outer Space Alison C. Rollins 2021
Little Lead Soldiers  Giannina Braschi 1988
This Body Renée Watson 2019
Model-Train Display at Christmas in a Shopping Mall Food Court James Arthur 2019
Plain Advice Jeff Gundy 2018
Diaspora Sonnet 25 Oliver de la Paz 2018
Thanksgiving in the Anthropocene, 2015 Craig Santos Perez 2017
The War in Colors Dunya Mikhail 2017
Dear Mama (4) Wanda Coleman 2017

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