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Title Author Year
Passers-by Carl Sandburg 2015
Reverse Suicide (audio only) Matt Rasmussen 2013
song in the backyard: a golden shovel for Rihanna (audio only) Evie Shockley 2013
From “Citizen,” VI [My brothers are notorious] Claudia Rankine 2014
Names Fady Joudah 2014
Diana of the Hunt Forceythe Willson 1867
Friendship After Love Ella Wheeler Wilcox 2014
A Love Lorenzo Calogero 2013
Coming and Going Tony Hoagland 2013
Spent Mark Doty 2013
Faust [Go, find yourself a more obedient slave!] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808
New Year’s Morning Helen Hunt Jackson 1892
Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew Ross Gay 2011
Whose Story of Us We Is Told Is Us Shane McCrae 2011
From “A Hemingway Reader: The Sun Also Also Rises” Robert Fitterman 2009
The Branches Jean Valentine 2009
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain James Wright 1992
The Ghazal of What Hurt Peter Cole 2008
Further Notice Philip Whalen 2008
Karma Edwin Arlington Robinson 1925

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