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Title Author Year
I Have Stood Up for You Carlos Montezuma 1919
The Dream of the Anti-Ekphrasis Fargo Nissim Tbakhi 2022
Truth Is Mortal Too-qua-stee 1901
Proof James Cagney 2022
America, I Am James Cagney 2022
Between Fulmination and Adoration Lois P. Jones 2022
How To Forgive Susan Nguyen 2022
Poem About My Life Mattering Tawanda Mulalu 2022
house hunting as an act of faith t’ai freedom ford 2022
The Story of Everything Kealoha 2018
The Start Matt Mason 2021
The Negro Soldiers Roscoe C. Jamison 1922
Dissent and the Hydra Jena Osman 2022
Courage Song for Scott Warren Cyrus Cassells 2022
Clarinet Cyrus Cassells 2022
The Only Way to Fight the Plague is Decency Cyrus Cassells 2022
Is Not (Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow) Cyrus Cassells 2020
New American Huascar Medina 2020
And What Shall You Say? Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. 1922
Is it Because I am Black Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. 1922

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