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Title Author Year
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [But there never was a black male hysteria] Terrance Hayes 2017
Tavern Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
Doctrine Sam Sax 2017
Dear Exile, Mai Der Vang 2017
Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove Rita Dove 2017
Sports History Brett Fletcher Lauer 2016
Road Trip Vijay Seshadri 2016
More Stones Andrea Cohen 2015
Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging Carl Adamshick 2014
A fourteen-line poem on Adoration Julie Carr 2014
Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova Yusef Komunyakaa 2014
El Beso Angelina Weld Grimké 1909
Flood James Joyce 1917
Waifs and Strays Arthur Rimbaud 1912
Delta Flight 659 Denise Duhamel 2009
Nearly a Valediction Marilyn Hacker 1994
Another Song [Are they shadows that we see?] Samuel Daniel 1610
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [Shut, shut the door] Alexander Pope 1735
I’m Over the Moon Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
Black Jackets Thom Gunn 1994

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