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Title Author Year
Life Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home) Patrick Rosal 2024
Harlem Langston Hughes 1994
The Black Virginity Mina Loy 1915
We Have Been Friends Together Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 1840
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956
This Living Hand John Keats 1818
What is Home? Mosab Abu Toha 2022
The Black Heralds César Vallejo 1918
Como Tú / Like You / Like Me Richard Blanco 2019
In the City Chen Chen 2017
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day John Dryden 1687
Grass Carl Sandburg 1918
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Anne Sexton 1981
Woman—The Poet Frances Dana Barker Gage 1867
The Harlem Dancer Claude McKay 1922
Defeat Kahlil Gibran 1918
The Border: A Double Sonnet Alberto Ríos 2016
Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself Wallace Stevens 1980
Tear It Down Jack Gilbert 2001

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