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This Bridge Across Christopher Gilbert 1984
I Am Like a Leaf Yone Noguchi 1921
Let Me Not Lose My Dream Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Females Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1898
Broken Music Corey Marks 2019
OBIT [Memory] Victoria Chang 2017
Doppler Effect Arthur Sze 2019
Song of the Open Road, 9 Walt Whitman 1891
I Never Figured How to Get Free Donika Kelly 2019
Songs (IV) E. E. Cummings 1923
In the old age black was not counted fair (Sonnet 127) William Shakespeare 1904
Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said (Sonnet 56) William Shakespeare 1904
Let me confess that we two must be twain. (Sonnet 36) William Shakespeare 1904
Sence you went away James Weldon Johnson 1922
The Broken Man’s Permission Aaron Coleman 2018
The Average Mother Camille T. Dungy 2018
To Science Edgar Allan Poe 1902
To Frances S. Osgood Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Today Is a Photograph Hafizah Augustus Geter 2017
& even the black guy’s profile reads ‘sorry, no black guys’ Danez Smith 2017

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