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Title Author Year
The Truth About the Present John Lane 2011
The Black Virginity Mina Loy 1915
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt] David Antin 1993
Friend Jean Valentine 2004
Washington’s Monument, February, 1885 Walt Whitman 1891
Summer Past John Gray 1893
Coffee and Oranges Joel Brouwer 2009
Unfolded Out of the Folds Walt Whitman 1891
An Ode to Himself Ben Jonson 1640
On Poet-Ape Ben Jonson 1616
Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl (audio only) Allen Ginsberg 1975
Hospital: strange lights Jean Valentine 2008
Thanksgiving Letter from Harry Carl Dennis 2007
Bedside William Olsen 2007
Einstein Defining Special Relativity A. Van Jordan 2007
Joseph Cornell, with Box Michael Dumanis 2007
Envoi William Meredith 1997
Drunken Winter Joseph Ceravolo 1994
Change in the Grove of Chickadees Lesle Lewis 2006
In California During the Gulf War Denise Levertov 1992

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