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Song Cycle by Jasmine Arielle Barnes (b. 1991)

1. Black Annie Hall  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
in a black wool hat
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Text Authorship:

  • by Rio Cortez , "Black Annie Hall", Prairie Schooner, copyright ©

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2. Black Mary Wilkie  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
in Manhattan we all have two-bedroom appartments

Text Authorship:

  • by Rio Cortez , "Black Mary Wilkie"

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2.   [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Much as I should miss Mother
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Text Authorship:

  • by Tracy K. Smith (b. 1972), appears in The Great Personal Privation, no. 2, copyright ©

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3. Black Lead in a Nancy Meyers Film  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Aging, at all. I want that. And to fall
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  • by Rio Cortez , "Black Lead in a Nancy Meyers Film", copyright ©

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First published in: Poem-a-Day, March 22, 2022, Academy of American Poets


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