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Title Author Year
An Erasure of Senate Bill 1698 (2) Moncho Alvarado 2023
“South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills” Aaron Coleman 2023
102 Joaquín Zihuatanejo 2022
Ore Choir: The Priest Questions the Lava Katy Didden 2022
dent Henneh Kyereh Kwaku 2022
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003): A Romance I̶n̶t̶e̶r̶r̶u̶p̶t̶e̶d̶ Edil Hassan 2021
“‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure” Nicole Sealey 2021
St. Mary’s Home for Unwed Mothers in Otahuhu, Auckland Chloe Honum 2019
Inside the MRI Machine Hala Alyan 2019
from I.C.E. AGE David Buuck 2018
Lesson VIII: Map of North America Elizabeth Bradfield 2017
Watershed Tracy K. Smith 2017
Self-Portrait as the Bootblack in Daguerre’s Boulevard du Temple Robin Coste Lewis 2017
from “Daughter of a Tree Farm” Carrie Olivia Adams 2014
Lines on a Skull Ravi Shankar 2012
Poem In Which Words Have Been Left Out Charles Jensen 2012
Archeology, p. 28 Vanessa Place 2011
Ferrum [excerpt] M. NourbeSe Philip 2008

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