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Title Author Year
A Birth Mother Wears A Costume Her Daughter Will Never Fit In Lynne Thompson 2020
Milk Julia B. Levine 2022
The Woman Who Wanted a Child Holly Karapetkova 2010
from “The Rose” Ariana Reines 2022
Black Mammies John Wesley Holloway 1922
Rest House Brandon Shimoda 2022
Mothers Arrange Their Aches at Night Maya Abu Al-Hayyat 2022
To Any Reader Robert Louis Stevenson
Ballad of Birmingham Dudley Randall 2009
Blessing Mihaela Moscaliuc 2021
Vista Deema K. Shehabi 2022
Time, Zeina Hashem Beck 2022
Columbian Ode Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
The Flea Gail Mazur 2022
Standing by a Shelf Brandon D. Johnson 2022
Self-lit KC Trommer 2022
Red Delicious Jerome Ellison Murphy 2022
Dancing, before you were born J. Hope Stein 2021
Imagined Love Poem to my Mother from my Father Joseph O. Legaspi 2007
The Daughter Cynthia Hogue 2019

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