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“After the Vigil for the Charleston Church Massacre” by Stevie Edwards
"alternate names for black boys" by Danez Smith
"A Small Needful Fact" by Ross Gay
"At Harlem Hospital across the street from the Schomburg the only thing to eat is a Big Mac" by Samiya Bashir
"@ the Crossroads--A Sudden American Poem" by Juan Felipe Herrera
"Aubade" by Camille Rankine 
"Devotion (I Am on the Battlefield for My Lord)" by Cortney Lamar Charleston
"Daily Conscription" by Kyle Dargan
"Down in the Valley" by Kwame Dawes
"For Mike Brown" by Fatimah Asghar
"For Trayvon Martin" by Reuben Jackson
"Ghazal, After Ferguson" by Yusef Komunyakaa
"Hustle" by Jericho Brown
"I Know All Mothers Say Their Children are Sweet," by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
"In Two Seconds" by Mark Doty
"Math" by Kwame Dawes
“not an elegy for Mike Brown” by Danez Smith
"Ode to My Hands" by Tim Seibles 
"Points of Contact" by Kyle Dargan
"Pulled Over in Short Hills, NJ, 8:00 AM" by Ross Gay
"Que Sera Sera" by ​A. Van Jordan
"Reverse: A Lynching" by Ansel Elkins
“Roll Call for Michael Brown” by Jason McCall 
"Safe Subjects" by Yusef Komunyakaa
"Self-Portrait in Charleston, Orlando" by Dean Rader
"Silencer to the Heart While Jogging Through a Park" by Marcus Wicker
“Sonnet Consisting of One Law” by Lynne Thompson
"The Ballad of Ferguson, Missouri" by Frederick Seidel
"The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet is Open Every Day" by Douglas Kearney
"the bullet was a girl" by Danez Smith 
"The Lost Woods as Elegy for Black Childhood" by Derrick Austin
"the valley of its making" by Nate Marshall
"To Jamyla Bolden of Ferguson, Missouri" by Naomi Shihab Nye
"Trayvon, Redux" by Rita Dove
"When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving" by Reginald Dwayne Betts
"What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do?" by Parneshia Jones
"What Would You Say If You Were Tamir Rice and You Had Two Seconds--" by Chaun Ballard
“Why We Don’t Have Children” by Anthony Frame
"Within Two Weeks the African American Poet Ross Gay is Mistaken for Both the African "American Poet Terrance Hayes and the African American Poet Kyle Dargan, Not One of Whom Looks Anything Like the Others"  by Ross Gay

Multimedia work

"Situations" by John Lucas and Claudia Rankine
"How Do You Raise a Black Child?" by Cortney Lamar Charleston
"Left" by Nikky Finney