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Title Author Year
Demeter to Persephone Alicia Ostriker 2009
Langston Blue Jericho Brown 2010
Day [excerpt] Kenneth Goldsmith 2003
Hallow-E'en, 1915 Winifred M. Letts 1916
Tender Buttons [Chicken] Gertrude Stein 1914
Back Yard Carl Sandburg 1916
Psalm George Oppen 1965
Song on May Morning John Milton 1645
Black Jackets Thom Gunn 1994
The Buried Life Matthew Arnold 1852
Beloved, my Beloved... (Sonnet 20) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850
The Mahogany Tree William Makepeace Thackeray 1882
Eighth Air Force Randall Jarrell 1969
Meaningful Love John Ashbery 2005
Styx Dana Levin 2011
Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey Hayden Carruth 1996
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100 Martín Espada 2003
Breakfast Minnie Bruce Pratt 2003
Come Up From the Fields Father Walt Whitman 1891
Love Poem Gregory Orr 2002

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