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O Black and Unknown Bards James Weldon Johnson 1922
Old Black Men Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Black Woman Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
La Vie C’est La Vie Jessie Redmon Fauset 1922
Irritable Mystic Nathaniel Mackey 1993
[American Journal] Robert Hayden 1978
The Weakness Toi Derricotte 1989
American Sonnet (10) Wanda Coleman 1993
cutting greens Lucille Clifton 1974
Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm Carl Phillips 2004
A Negro Love Song Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
All She Wrote Harryette Mullen 1997

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