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Title Author Year
Throwing Children Ross Gay 2023
i know the grandmother one had hands Jaki Shelton Green 2019
The Raincoat Ada Limón 2018
I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World Anymore Kendra DeColo 2021
Humility Mark Gibbons 2021
Luke and the Frog: An American Fairytale OR What It Feels Like to Be a Parent in America Jasminne Mendez 2023
Garden Variety with Lesbians Serena Chopra 2023
The Earth Sheila Black 2023
The Bearing Edge Ralph James Savarese 2023
You Must Lift Your Son’s Languid Body Oliver de la Paz 2023
Breeding at the End of the World Gloria Muñoz 2021
Lullaby John James 2023
Neoteric Kama No Sutra Frank X Walker 2023
Materials for a Gravestone Rubbing Matthew Wimberley 2023
Lullaby of the Iroquois Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
A Thing That Happened Matt Mason 2020
Camelot Airea D. Matthews 2014
Seed of Mango, Seed of Maize Lynne Thompson 2007
A Birth Mother Wears A Costume Her Daughter Will Never Fit In Lynne Thompson 2020
The Woman Who Wanted a Child Holly Karapetkova 2010

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