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Title Author Year
When They Die We Change Our Minds About Them Jennifer Michael Hecht 2014
Rondeau Jessie Redmon Fauset 1912
The World Seems … Gregory Orr 2014
On Viewing the Skull and Bones of a Wolf Alexander Posey 1910
I Love the Hour Just Before Todd Boss 2013
Giraffes Kimiko Hahn 2013
Excelsior Walt Whitman 1891
The High-School Lawn Thomas Hardy 1925
Mimosa Mary Ruefle 2013
Rocket Fantastic [He’s really beautiful.] Gabrielle Calvocoressi 2013
The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit Leigh Hunt 1836
Oracle Cate Marvin 2013
far memory Lucille Clifton 1991
Man Eating Jane Kenyon 2005
Self-Portrait as Mae West One-Liner Paisley Rekdal 2013
A Sonnet from the Archive of Love’s Failures, Volumes 1-3.5 Million Anne Boyer 2013
The Ballad of Cathay Williams William Cathay Shane McCrae 2012
Constancy to an Ideal Object Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1828
High Tide at Race Point Charles Bernstein 2012
Providence Catherine Barnett 2012

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