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Letters Found Near a Suicide 1927
Negro Woman Lewis Grandison Alexander 1926
Song for a Dark Girl Langston Hughes 1927
To a Persistent Phantom 1927
On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church 1927
Interim Clarissa Scott Delany 1927
Winter: A Dirge Robert Burns 1786
from “Parallax” Nancy Cunard 1925
The Harp of Broken Strings John Rollin Ridge 1850
Workworn Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Truth Is Mortal Too-qua-stee 1901
Lines Written During My Second Pandemic Eduardo C. Corral 2022
The Haunted House Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1834
Traffic Luis G. Dato 1926
what we did while waiting for the rain Afua Ansong 2022
At Memphis Station Johannes V. Jensen 1922
The African Mother Francisco Acuña de Figueroa 1918
We Used Our Words We Used What Words We Had Franny Choi 2022
In Public John Wieners 2015
Forthcoming John Wieners 2015

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