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AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992)							1893
Coal									1895
Now That I Am Forever with Child					1895
On a Night of the Full Moon						1896
Black Mother Woman							1897
Love Poem								1897
When the Saints Come Marching in					1898
Between Ourselves							1898
Sister Outsider								1901
For the Record								1901
FROM 	Sister Outsider
	Poetry Is Not a Luxury						1902


RITA DOVE (1952-	)						1904
Kentucky, 1833								1905
Adolescence-I								1906
Adolescence-II								1906
Adolescence-III								1907
Banneker								1907
Jiving									1908
The Zeppelin Factory							1909
Under the Viaduct, 1932							1910
Roast Possum								1910
Weathering Out								1912
Daystar									1912


MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (1940-	)					1913
No Name Woman								1914


EDWARD ALBEE (1928-	)						1922
The Zoo Story								1923


SAUL BELLOW (1915-	)						1939
A Silver Dish								1940


KURT VONNEGUT (1922-	)						1960
Welcome to the Monkey House						1962