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Title Author Year
Country of Water Mahogany L. Browne 2022
ADVICE (for E) Marilyn Chin 2022
Man Hesitates but Life Urges D’Arcy McNickle 1926
Iris of Life Zitkála-Šá 1898
Sonnet [Upon these deeps in days remotely old] Luis G. Dato 1926
Argonauts Luis G. Dato 1926
Road to Revival James Cagney 2018
For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella Ariana Brown 2022
If There Is Another World Malena Mörling 2006
God Was Willing Sis: I’m Home Mona Lisa Saloy 2022
II Alone John Wieners 2015
The Inflammation Nikky Finney 2022
The Function of a Wing Emma Trelles 2022
Corazón in Fall Emma Trelles 2020
Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode Airea D. Matthews 2019
Northboun’ Lucy Ariel Williams 1922
The Moving Truck Poem Andru Defeye 2017
Do not trust the eraser Rosamond S. King 2022
Courage Song for Scott Warren Cyrus Cassells 2022
Fantasy in Purple Langston Hughes 1922

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