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Harlem Shadows Claude McKay 1922
Young Singer Langston Hughes 1926
On Broadway Claude McKay 1922
Haikus Willie Perdomo 2021
SELF PORTRAIT as retratos de cosas locas y de locos (stolen) Patricia Spears Jones 2021
Victims of Unreason R. Erica Doyle 2017
Trance Essay for Remembering Images Diana Hamilton 2020
Evolution Margaret Ross 2020
Sidewalk Rage Pamela Sneed 2020
Free Kevin Killian 2008
Anointing Maria Lisella 2019
Our Date Maria Lisella 2013
Sketches of American History Philip Freneau 1784
Manhattan City Philip Freneau 1783
To A New Dawning Amber Tamblyn 2020
from Grandmother’s Garden Meena Alexander 2020
Entering Saint Patrick’s Cathedral Malachi Black 2020
East River Lola Ridge 1920
Washington Square—New York, 1941 Molly Fisk 2019
Divagar Mónica de la Torre 2019

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