1. “How to be a Person” by Shane Koyczan
2. “How To Be Alone” by Pádraig Ó Tuama
3. “To Live in the Borderlands” by Gloria Anzaldua
4. “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith
5. “The Year of No Grudges” by Andrea Gibson
6. “Pins and Needles” by Dua Saleh
7. “Como Tú” by Roque Dalton
8. “I Am Not A Cool Girlfriend” by Priya Malik
9. “Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem” by Matthew Olzmann
10. “There’s Someone For Everyone” by Sainee Raj
11. “My Mother Explains My Depression to Me” by RJ Walker
12. “A Lot Like You” by Rudy Francisco
13. “So Now” by Charles Bukowski
14. “You Can Take Off Your Sweater, I’ve Made Today Warm” by Paige Lewis
15. “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry
16. “The City in Which I Love You” by Li-Young Lee
17. “Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class” by Clint Smith
18. “BPD” by Coral More
19. “I’m Only Human” by Deon Demamount
20. “I Won’t Write Your Obituary” by Nora Cooper
21. “One Turn Around the Sun” by Tim Seibles
22. “No One Tells You How Easy It Is to Fall in Love or How Hard It Is to Stay There” by Emi Mahmoud
23. “I’m Sorry I Thought You Were Your Mother” by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
24. “Maria” by Krutika Zambre
25. “There is No Hierarchy of Oppressions” by Audre Lorde
26. “Affirmation” by Assata Shakur
27. “My Words” by César Leonardo de León
28. “Sorrow Is Not My Name” by Ross Gay
29. “When They Look Right Through You” by Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre
30. “To Shaun, on Your 10th Birthday” by Guillermo Corona

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