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Title Author Year
Stability Is a Feeling Nazifa Islam 2023
Unspooled Carla Rachel Sameth 2021
Across the Victorious Scrub Brush, Crow Spirals Lauren Camp 2023
Oak Skin Kris Ringman 2023
I'm Fly Glenis Redmond 2016
flesh [I thought a lot about your body,] Deborah Landau 2023
Like Prophets of Baal Junious Ward 2020
Douglass Pool Latif Askia Ba 2023
Prints Joseph Bruchac 2023
Duo-Tang Kenward Elmslie 1971
Bio Kenward Elmslie 1975
from “All About You” Chris Nealon 2023
Malice S. Brook Corfman 2023
The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third Mark Akenside 1744
Walls C. P. Cavafy 1927
Instructions Before Stuttering JJJJJerome Ellis 2023
Sappho for Everybody Maxe Crandall 2023
Recitative Hart Crane 1926
Self-Care Is a Psy-Op Jameka Williams 2023
Writing Prompt Michael Torres 2023

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