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Title Author Year
Olney Hymns, IX [The Contrite Heart] William Cowper 1779
The Ghazal of What Hurt Peter Cole 2008
A Noun Sentence Mahmoud Darwish 2007
Further Notice Philip Whalen 2008
Quatrains Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
The Fish Linda Bierds 1994
Darwin’s Finches Deborah Digges 1986
Credo Matthew Rohrer 2001
Lawless Pantoum Denise Duhamel 2005
The Odyssey, Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree] Homer 1961
Central Park, Carousel Meena Alexander 2004
Go Greyhound Bob Hicok 2004
Medusa Frieda Hughes 2003
The Two Philip Levine 2002
The Plaid Dress Edna St. Vincent Millay 2001
About Face Alice Fulton 1995
Late Afternoon Michelle Bitting 2026
Wake Turbulence Elizabeth Metzger 2026
A Song [I was want] Jos Charles 2026
The Iliad, Book XX [The Warrior’s Return] Homer 2023

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