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Title Author Year
The Elephant is Slow to Mate D. H. Lawrence 1964
Trees in the Garden D. H. Lawrence 1964
Nothing to Save D. H. Lawrence 1964
Bright Star John Keats 1838
Heroic Simile Robert Hass 1978
The Soldier David Ferry 1999
That Evening at Dinner David Ferry 1999
On Looking for Models Alan Dugan 1983
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
Variation on the Word Sleep Margaret Atwood 1987
This Is a Photograph of Me Margaret Atwood 1998
Mirabeau Bridge Guillaume Apollinaire 1995
My Friend Tree Lorine Niedecker 1985
Next Day Randall Jarrell 1969
A Season (audio only) Joseph Brodsky 1980
How I Got That Name Marilyn Chin 1994
At the Fishhouses Elizabeth Bishop 1979
One Art Elizabeth Bishop 1979
Shafro Terrance Hayes 1999
First Gestures Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1998

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