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Title Author Year
Sara in Her Father’s Arms George Oppen 2008
The Seven Prisms of My Blood Khaty Xiong 2020
Sonnet for a Tall Flower Blooming at Dinnertime Yona Harvey 2020
Twizzlers Pamela Sneed 2020
Pledge Allegiance Natalie Scenters-Zapico 2020
Did anyone ever ask any one of Nikita’s daughters francine j. harris 2020
The Black Queen Carrie Law Morgan Figgs 1921
The Secret of Youth Micah Daniels 2020
Every Verb is a Lesson in Longing or Dread April Freely 2020
Measured Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon 2020
Afterward but not Afterword A. Van Jordan 2020
The Scarlet Woman Fenton Johnson 1922
From The House Of Yemanjá (audio only) Audre Lorde 1978
Give Your Daughters Difficult Names Assétou Xango 2017
My Eighteen-Month-Old Daughter Talks to the Rain as the Amazon Burns Dante Di Stefano 2020
You Rode a Loop Rosa Alcalá 2020
Self-Portrait in the Time of Disaster Deborah Paredez 2020
Heritage Emissary Threa Almontaser 2020
The Net Margaret Widdemer 1915
Gold Mountain Emily Yong 2020

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