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Title Author Year
Jungle Taste Edward S. Silvera 1927
Sissy Aaron Smith 2023
“South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills” Aaron Coleman 2023
I Grant You Ample Leave George Eliot 1959
Ancestry Tommy Archuleta 2023
Indeterminacy Charif Shanahan 2023
No Room to Form John S. Blake 2023
Boihood Jari Bradley 2023
The Lose Your Mother Suite VI. “across the surface of my studied speech” Remica Bingham-Risher 2023
Four Walls Blanche Taylor Dickinson 1927
Revelation Blanche Taylor Dickinson 1927
The Mask Clarissa Scott Delany 1927
Day and Night Lewis Grandison Alexander 1927
The Dark Brother Lewis Grandison Alexander 1927
Canopy Arlene Keizer 2023
Incident Countee Cullen 1927
From the Dark Tower Countee Cullen 1927
Yet Do I Marvel Countee Cullen 1927
Homing Arna Bontemps 1927
Close Your Eyes! Arna Bontemps 1927

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