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Title Author Year
There was earth inside them Paul Celan 2020
Evolution Margaret Ross 2020
Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Over Joy Priest 2020
Vacation End Leslie Pinckney Hill 2020
Brass Spittoons Langston Hughes 1922
My People Langston Hughes 1922
The Tired Worker Claude McKay 1922
It's Too Late Honey Bell-Bey 2018
Moving Men John Warner Smith 2016
The West Country Alice Cary
The Empty Cup Katharine Rolston Fisher 1918
Reveille Lola Ridge 1920
On Retirement Philip Freneau 1786
El Arpa, a Mexican Lynching, No. 53 Anthony Cody 2020
Quelly Looks up From the Ground Grace Cavalieri 2019
A Christmas Doll Margaret Widdemer 1915
A New Spinning Song Margaret Widdemer 1915
Partners Alice Duer Miller 1915
Sonnet Alice Duer Miller 1915
The Colonel Carolyn Forché 1981

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