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Title Author Year
On a Very Old Woman William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
Television Prevents Me From Seeing the World as It Really Is Carmen Giménez 2018
All Money Is A Matter of Belief Carmen Giménez 2018
The Watergate Rodney Jones 2017
For No Good Reason Twyla M. Hansen 2017
Sistas Sandra María Esteves 2017
Evadne H.D. 1921
Mail-Order Planets Adrian Matejka 2017
Visit from Mars Gerald Stern 2017
melancholy lake Julian Talamantez Brolaski 2017
Duet Lisa Russ Spaar 2017
In the Waiting Room Craig Morgan Teicher 2017
Clue Nicole Sealey 2017
Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove Rita Dove 2017
I Have Not Come Here to Compare Notes But to Sit Together in the Stillness at the Edge of This Wound David Kirby 2016
Rapture Martha Ronk 2016
Force Visibility Solmaz Sharif 2016
Viewers may think that they can process it all Stephanie Gray 2016
If you look closely enough at a word, you’ll find it contains its opposite* Stephanie Gray 2016
The Church of Michael Jordan Jeffrey McDaniel 2016

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