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Title Author Year
Heartbeats Melvin Dixon 2017
Howl, Parts I & II Allen Ginsberg 1984
Song of Myself, V Walt Whitman 1891
Femme Futures Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 2019
Grandpa Diana Marie Delgado 2021
The Splendid Body Rebecca Lindenberg 2023
Matrilineage [umbilicus] Sarah Ghazal Ali 2023
Grow Ruth Ellen Kocher 2023
ER S/P GSW Paul Hlava Ceballos 2023
Ant as a glass of water Sawako Nakayasu 2023
I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World Anymore Kendra DeColo 2021
Why in Some Hospitals They Don’t Let You Hold Hands During Labor Kendra DeColo 2021
I Pump Milk like a Boss Kendra DeColo 2021
When my OB/GYN Said He Didn't Understand Poetry Christine Stewart-Nuñez 2016
When You're Away, I Consider Form Christine Stewart-Nuñez 2021
The warble of melting snow is the river Emily Lee Luan 2023
Under the Spell of Conjunto Vickie Vértiz 2023
Decolonialish Self-Portrait Sara Borjas 2023
Mujer Malvada Janel Pineda 2023
from “Everything Shimmers” Naja Marie Aidt 2015

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