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Title Author Year
a little tenderness Omotara James 2024
Bolivar Luis Lloréns Torres 1925
KFC, or the taste of success is—wait for it—tender on the outside, tough on the inside Stine An 2019
From “Spanish Folk Songs” Salvador de Madariaga 1922
My Husband Disguised as a Stranger in a Kraków Bar Linda Nemec Foster 2023
Ostrich Woman Nandi Comer 2018
Ekphrasis On “The New York Times” Headline “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom” Emily Khilfeh 2024
Gold-Fish Leonora Speyer 1921
To the Little Bed at Night Max Eastman 1918
War in her mouth Haleh Liza Gafori 2023
Contrast Robinson Jeffers 1928
Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora Terisa Siagatonu 2024
Last Anjoli Roy 2024
The Blue Sock Pat Schneider 2019
Borrow Sarah McCartt-Jackson 2024
Spiral Hari Alluri 2024
The Coming of Night Skipwith Cannell 1917
The Black Man’s Bit Leslie Pinckney Hill 1921
[poets in their bassinets] Lucille Clifton 2024
To the Air Myronn Hardy 2024

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