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Title Author Year
The Painted Bed Donald Hall 2006
The Beef Epitaph Michael Benedikt 1976
Bedtime Story Wanda Coleman 1993
My Friends W. S. Merwin 1963
California Plush Frank Bidart 1973
Bomb Crater Sky Lam Thi My Da 2005
Hard Night Christian Wiman 2005
Central Park, Carousel Meena Alexander 2004
If the Owl Calls Again John Haines 1993
Pledge Elizabeth A. I. Powell 2001
Red String Minnie Bruce Pratt 1999
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly [excerpt] Ezra Pound 1956
From “Meditations of the Old Young Man” [2. What it was to live ...] Stéphane Bouquet 2026
This Land Remembers Manuel González 2026
Wake Turbulence Elizabeth Metzger 2026
Not Brave Maha Hashwi 2026
[I finish The Lover and we take a walk.] Nicole Tallman 2025
1999 A. Van Jordan 2026
“Artificial neurons can be trained to kill humans without humans overseeing” K. A. Hays 2026
The Names of Grasses Jacob Shores-Argüello 2026

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