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Title Author Year
they need some of us to die Donte Collins 2020
Power (audio only) Audre Lorde 1978
“All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes." Elizabeth Jacobson 2019
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window W. B. Yeats 1924
Waiting for a Number Peter Balakian 2020
Diplomacy Robbi Nester 2020
Consequences Rachael Lang 2020
Legacy Megan Neville 2020
Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More Matt Donovan 2019
Long Guns Carl Sandburg 1919
You Say You Said Marianne Moore 1918
Ballard Locks Paisley Rekdal 2019
Unfunky UFO Adrian Matejka 2019
Map to the Stars Adrian Matejka 2019
ED ASNER Ronaldo V. Wilson 2019
Divagar Mónica de la Torre 2019
When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019
For a Bail Denied Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019
The Prestige Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
Whose Sleeves: American Tagasode Ed Roberson 2019

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