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Title Author Year
Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl (audio only) Allen Ginsberg 1975
Lovers' Infiniteness John Donne 1633
Why Is the Color of Snow? Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
Bucolics [LIX] Maurice Manning 2007
Eating the Bones Ellen Bass 2007
Bedtime Story Wanda Coleman 1993
My Friends W. S. Merwin 1963
Bomb Crater Sky Lam Thi My Da 2005
The Orchid Flower Sam Hamill 2002
Once in the 40’s William Stafford 1982
The Mutes Denise Levertov 1966
Nothing to Save D. H. Lawrence 1964
Red String Minnie Bruce Pratt 1999
Mantle Kevin Young 2025
Holiday cheer or holiday void— Haleh Liza Gafori 2024
Even in Gretna, Hearing the Cashier Talk, I Long for Gretna Alison Pelegrin 2022
Unspooled Carla Rachel Sameth 2021
The Change Has Come Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
I Was a Good Wife Vanessa Angélica Villarreal 2021
This Sunday in Ordinary Time Peter Twal 2018

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