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Title Author Year
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies June Jordan 2017
A Poison Tree William Blake 1794
Rendering from “Historia Verdadera: Capítulo CLII” Chloe Garcia Roberts 2022
Life's Leaders Elsa Gidlow 1923
The Pirate Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
Menace to Taylor Johnson 2020
Hatred Gwendolyn Bennett 1922
ars poetica Aldrin Valdez 2020
Genetic Abduction Honey Bell-Bey 2019
Home, Sweet Home Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
Equivalences Mónica de la Torre 2020
Pardon Julia Ward Howe 1999
A Meditation Herman Melville
The March into Virginia Herman Melville 1866
Coyote Alexander Posey 1910
No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits Xan Phillips 2019
Hunger Strikers Pádraig Ó Tuama 2019
On Crime and Punishment Kahlil Gibran 1923
The Door Nomi Stone 2018
Human Technology Nomi Stone 2018

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