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Title Author Year
"The world is a beautiful place" Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2017
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
A Brief History of Hostility Jamaal May 2017
Vaccinated Jericho Brown 2021
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth] William Shakespeare 2016
She Passed This Way Djuna Barnes 1923
Aurora Americana Myronn Hardy 2023
Luke and the Frog: An American Fairytale OR What It Feels Like to Be a Parent in America Jasminne Mendez 2023
Some days of wine and pastry Samiya Bashir 2023
Masters and Lovers Mona Kareem 2023
a moving grove Iryna Shuvalova 2023
Bullfight Norma Elia Cantú 2019
The Palace-Burner Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt 1874
Lateral Violence Prageeta Sharma 2023
Standing Dead Andrea Abi-Karam 2023
Parasitoid Frank Gallimore 2023
History of Language Fabio Pusterla 2014
Love Letter to a Burning World Carla Rachel Sameth 2021
Southern Cross, Thirty Feet High Junious Ward 2021
Subjunctive Zaina Alsous 2023

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