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Title Author Year
Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon Benjamin Alire Sáenz 2010
ER S/P GSW Paul Hlava Ceballos 2023
On the day of the trial Black America lost, again KB Brookins 2023
Luke and the Frog: An American Fairytale OR What It Feels Like to Be a Parent in America Jasminne Mendez 2023
Drought Essay Isabel Neal 2023
Nike of Samothrace Mark Irwin 2022
Threshold Divya Victor 2021
The Inflammation Nikky Finney 2022
How We Lived Emma Trelles 2020
A Thing That Happened Matt Mason 2020
“Uvalde Shooting Highlights Role of Doors in Security Plans” Deborah Paredez 2022
Hope 2020 Ashanti Files 2022
The Neighbor’s Street Sirens Sing Ed Roberson 2022
Is Not (Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow) Cyrus Cassells 2020
Haiku Ray McNiece 2004
Ready! Aim! Fire! Cyrus Cassells 2020
Midnight Air in Louisville Afaa Michael Weaver 2022
The Mud Sermon Ishion Hutchinson 2021
three Black poems from August Danez Smith 2021
In the Event Of Shane McCrae 2021

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