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Title Author Year
Generation David St. John 2017
Villanelle with Violin Marilyn Krysl 2017
Heritage Claude McKay 2017
What Is It You Feel I Asked Kurt Diane Seuss 2016
From “Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus” Anaïs Duplan 2016
Ghost Music Robert Graves 2016
The Musician of Saint-Merri Ron Padgett 2016
If you look closely enough at a word, you’ll find it contains its opposite* Stephanie Gray 2016
“Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [Mahalia Jackson is a genius.] Claudia Rankine 2016
From “Pieces of Kate” Eamon Grennan 2010
My Most Recent Position Paper Bob Hicok 2016
Dear America Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2016
Blast Marie-Elizabeth Mali 2016
America, I Sing Back Allison Adelle Hedge Coke 2016
Blind Boone’s Apparitions Tyehimba Jess 2016
Transit Rita Dove 2016
The Tempest, Act III, Scene II [Be not afeard] William Shakespeare 1622
Professor Hesser, Music Lessons Marilyn Nelson 2016
Limitations Henrietta Cordelia Ray 2016
The Gift to Sing James Weldon Johnson 2015

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