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Title Author Year
Little Lead Soldiers  Giannina Braschi 1988
Fracture Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2020
I Was Called Back Samuel Ace 2020
How to Start Over Stuart Kestenbaum 2019
When the Virus Comes Angelo Geter 2020
From A Book of Hours Maureen N. McLane 2020
Social Distancing Juan Felipe Herrera 2020
Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial Brenda Hillman 2020
My Debt Jane Hirshfield 2020
Like Others Jane Hirshfield 2020
On the Fifth Day Jane Hirshfield 2020
Octopus Empire Marilyn Nelson 2019
Prophecy of a Monday Chad Sweeney 2019
Not Everybody’s Bestiary (Yet) Rebecca Morgan Frank 2019
Letter to Noah’s Wife Maya C. Popa 2019
Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century Herman Melville 2019
Particulate Matter Molly Fisk 2018
from “Apocalipsixtlán” [12. A Second Crack in the Earth] Rigoberto González 2019
from "Apocalipsixtlán" [5. Signs of the End of the World] Rigoberto González 2019
from “Dissolve” [A field that shivered with a thousand cranes] Sherwin Bitsui 2018

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