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Title Author Year
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
A Brief History of Hostility Jamaal May 2017
For My People Margaret Walker 2017
We Should Make a Documentary About Spades Terrance Hayes 2017
Remember Joy Harjo 1983
Paul Revere’s Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1861
Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley 1818
The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922
Enigma Leonora Speyer 1921
Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1816
I Have a Rendezvous with Death Alan Seeger 1917
Lift Every Voice and Sing James Weldon Johnson 1917
In Flanders Fields John McCrae 1915
[by way of entry you sit with an object] Chaun Webster 2023
Decolonialish Self-Portrait Sara Borjas 2023
[to keep knowing] Aracelis Girmay 2023
a force is a push or a pull (5.8 million puerto ricans in america) Giovannai Rosa 2023
Planet Dread Safiya Sinclair 2023
Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, IV Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer 1891
from “The World After Rain” Canisia Lubrin 2023

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