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A weekly podcast focusing on all things poetic, poetry and poets. Each week we will feature a poet and their poem. We will be highlighting classic poets from our In-School Anthology, sharing brief bios on the poet and a spoken word reading of one of their poems. We will also be introducing contemporary poets from the greater poetry community and our own Get Lit poets into the podcast space.
| Episode | Date |
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Ocean Vuong | "Kissing in Vietnamese"
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Francisco X. Alarcón | "In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles" and "L.A. Prayer"
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Clint Smith III | "what is left"
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Gloria Anzaldúa | “To Live in the Borderlands”
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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sam sax | “First Will and Testament”
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Kimii Nagata | “Be Like the Cactus”
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Franny Choi | "Choi Jeong Min"
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Tanya Ko Hong | "Second Period"
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Lawson Fusao Inada | “Healing Gila”
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May 10, 2024 |
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Toyo Suyemoto | "Barracks Home"
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May 07, 2024 |
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Garrett Hongo | excerpt from “Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi”
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May 03, 2024 |
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Layli Long Soldier | “Resolution (6)”
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Alice Walker | “How Poems are Made / A Discredited View”
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Claude MaKay | “I Know My Soul”
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Fatimah Asghar | “If They Come for Us”
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Carolyn Forché | “The Boatman”
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Joy Harjo | "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Lateef McLeod | "I Am Too Pretty For Some Ugly Laws"
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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W.E.B. Du Bois | "The Song of the Smoke"
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Paige Lewis | "The Moment I Saw a Pelican Devour"
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Kimiko Hahn | "The Dream of Shoji"
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Elisa Gonzalez | "Failed Essay on Privilege"
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Angélica Maria Aguilera | "The Star Spanglish Banner"
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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José Olivarez | "(Citizen)(Illegal)" and "Ars Poetica"
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Rigoberto Gonzalez | "Birthright"
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Li-Young Lee | "A Story"
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Alma Flor Ada | "Bilingual"
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Agha Shahid Ali | "Stationery"
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Marty McConnell | “Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell”
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Naomi Shihab Nye | "How Do I Know When a Poem is Finished?"
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Sally Wen Mao | "The Belladonna of Sadness"
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Melissa Lozada-Oliva | "The Women in My Family Are Bitches"
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Danusha Laméris | "Small Kindnesses"
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Camonghne Felix | "Thank God I Can't Drive"
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Anis Mojgani | "Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget."
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Tato Laviera | "my graduation speech"
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Nate Marshall | "Out South"
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Wang Ping | "Things We Carry On The Sea"
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Daphne Gottlieb | "Sexy Balaclava"
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Tarfia Faizullah | "Self-Portrait as Slinky"
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Olivia Gatwood | “Ode to the Women on Long Island”
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Joshua Jennifer Espinoza | “A Guide to Reading Trans Literature”
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Shira Erlichman | “Mind Over Matter”
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Stephen Dunn | "Sweetness"
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Matthew Dickman | "Slow Dance"
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Natalie Diaz | "Manhattan is a Lenape Word"
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Diana Der-Hovanessian | "Shifting the Sun"
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Chen Chen | "Self-Portrait as a Wild Extrovert"
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Leila Chatti | "Tea"
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Victoria Chang | excerpt from “Obit” [Blame]
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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CAConrad | "Glitter in my Wounds"
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Bishop | "One Art"
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Sara Borjas | "Lies I Tell"
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Ada Limón | "A New National Anthem"
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Tyree Daye | "Learning Whitney"
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Tommye Blount | "The Pedestrian"
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Traci Brimhall | "Oh Wonder"
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Sekou Sundiata | "Shout Out"
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Saul Williams | excerpt from "Indigo On"
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Eve L. Ewing | "I come from the fire city."
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Natasha Trethewey | “Imperatives for Carrying On in the Aftermath”
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Nicole Sealey | “Object Permanence”
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Evie Shockley | “because there should be love”
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Angel Nafis | “Woo Woo Roll Deep”
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Harryette Mullen | “We Are Not Responsible”
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Willie Perdomo | “Bad Habits”
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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John Murillo | “Variation on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop”
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Jamaal May | “Pomegranate Means Grenade”
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Kevin Young | “Ode to Midwest”
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Nate Marshall | “Praise Song”
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Crystal Valentine | “On Evaluating Black Privilege”
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Morgan Parker | “Heaven Be a Xanax”
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar | “The Debt”
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Langston Hughes | excerpt of “Let America Be America Again”
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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June Jordan | “A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades”
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Krysten Hill | “Nothing”
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Terrance Hayes | “George Floyd”
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Rita Dove | “Heart to Heart”
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Destiny O. Birdsong | “failed avoidance of ‘the body’ in a poem”
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Melvin Dixon | “Heartbeats”
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Ross Gay | "Love, I'm Done With You"
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May 24, 2021 |
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Robert Hayden | “Those Winter Sundays”
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May 18, 2021 |
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Inua Ellams | “Fuck / Shakespeare”
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May 11, 2021 |
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Sekou Andrews | “When I Grow Up”
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Amiri Baraka | “Ka’Ba”
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Countee Cullen | “Fruit Of The Flower”
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Safia Elhillo | “Ode to Gossips”
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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francine j. harris | “Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monostich Past 45"
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Nikki Giovanni | "I Take Mastercard, Charge Your Love To Me"
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Camille T. Dungy | “Characteristics of Life”
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Wanda Coleman | "Bedtime Story"
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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F. Douglas Brown | “How to Tell My Dad that I Kissed a Man”
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Gwendolyn Brooks | "To the Young Who Want to Die"
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Aziza Barnes | "my dad asks, how come black folks can't just write about flowers"
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Amanda Gorman | "The Hill We Climb"
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Yusef Komunyakaa | “Anodyne”
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Porsha Olayiwola | “Twerk Villanelle”
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Audre Lorde | "A Litany For Survival"
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Patricia Smith | “Biting Back”
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Marquesha Babers | "That Girl"
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Dudley Randall | "Booker T. and W.E.B."
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Claudia Rankine | "Weather"
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Sonia Sanchez | “This is Not a Small Voice”
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Warsan Shire | "Ugly"
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Danez Smith | "Rose"
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Gil Scott-Heron | "I Think I'll Call It Morning"
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Cameron Awkward-Rich | “Cento Between the Ending and the End”
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Ta-Nehisi Coates | "Between The World & Me"
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Elizabeth Acevedo | "Afro Latina"
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Mahogany L. Browne | "Working Title"
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Etheridge Knight | "Poems From Prison"
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Hanif Abdurraqib | "They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us"
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Tiana Clark | "My Therapist Wants To Know About My Relationship To Work"
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Jericho Brown | "Bullet Points"
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Lucille Clifton | Continuing To Hope
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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James Baldwin | "The Fire Next Time"
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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William Carlos Williams | "The Red Wheelbarrow"
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Rumi | "The Breezes at Dawn"
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Sylvia Plath | "Heavy Women"
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Jack Kerouac | “Live, Travel, Adventure”
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Maya Angelou | "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Walt Whitman | "O Captain! My Captain!"
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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John Keats | "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"
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Feb 22, 2020 |