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Title Author Year
An Indignation Dinner James D. Corrothers 1922
In The Matter Of Two Men James D. Corrothers 1922
The Deserted Plantation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
The God Of My Goddess Ameen Rihani 1905
The Colored Soldiers Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
God Could Not Make Her a Poet Cornelius Eady 2022
Revisionary Robert Pinsky 2022
As I Grew Older Langston Hughes 1926
three Black poems from August Danez Smith 2021
Enslaved Claude McKay 1922
Negro Langston Hughes 1922
Aunt Sue’s Stories Langston Hughes 1921
children of the drum Roscoe Burnems 2018
A Short History of Journey Aileen Cassinetto 2020
Haint Blue Aileen Cassinetto 2020
The America I Know Could Use a Good Cry Marcus Amaker 2020
On Time Tanka June Jordan 2021
Realization Marilyn Nelson 2021
America is Loving Me to Death Michael Kleber-Diggs 2020
Never Again Pamela Sneed 2020

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