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Title Author Year
[The sun is lord of life and colour] Iris Tree 1919
Oak Park Mutters Statistics Kyla Pereles 2022
Caribbean Sunset Langston Hughes 1926
three Black poems from August Danez Smith 2021
The Three Birds of the Milky Way Donika Kelly 2017
Primordial Mirror Ama Codjoe 2021
Margo Fanny Howe 2021
I Was a Good Wife Vanessa Angélica Villarreal 2021
Torch Deborah A. Miranda 2021
If You Tell It Backward Porsha Olayiwola 2021
Miracles Giannina Braschi 2011
Venus & Serena Play Doubles on Center Court Kate Rushin 2020
Notorious Porsha Olayiwola 2019
“All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes." Elizabeth Jacobson 2019
When the Virus Comes Angelo Geter 2020
O Claire Wahmanholm 2020
Bliss Point or What Can Best Be Achieved by Cheese Benjamin Garcia 2020
How the Stars Understand Us Christopher Gilbert 1984
The Only Mexican David Tomas Martinez 2014
The Late Cold War Brenda Hillman 2019

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