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Title Author Year
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies June Jordan 2017
Immigration Sarah Gambito 2009
Let No Charitable Hope Elinor Wylie 2023
Malice S. Brook Corfman 2023
A Midnight Woman to the Bobby Claude McKay 1912
Someday, Again Jason Bayani 2023
Dirtbag Leigh Lucas 2023
After the Reading Tiana Clark 2023
yes the business folk José Olivarez 2023
The Moon Is in Labor Gail Wronsky 2023
Confession Countee Cullen 1927
America, I Am James Cagney 2022
The Start Matt Mason 2021
The Lives of the Saints Julia B. Levine 2021
New American Huascar Medina 2020
Haiku Ray McNiece 2004
The Band of Gideon Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. 1922
Hard Daddy Langston Hughes 1922
dent Henneh Kyereh Kwaku 2022
Ahead and Around Laura Riding Jackson 1926

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