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Title Author Year
Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina Jack Gilbert 2009
Lay Back the Darkness Edward Hirsch 2003
Pastoral Jennifer Chang 2008
Letter [Persephone to Demeter] Rachel Zucker 2003
Joseph Cornell, with Box Michael Dumanis 2007
Einstein Defining Special Relativity A. Van Jordan 2007
A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI A. E. Housman 1896
Love in a Life Robert Browning 1855
Envoi William Meredith 1997
I rose from marsh mud Lorine Niedecker 2002
Ballade [The goat scratches so much it can't sleep] François Villon 1965
A Crosstown Breeze Henry Taylor 2006
He “Digesteth Harde Yron” Marianne Moore 1961
One of the Lives W. S. Merwin 1996
Ponies Spencer Reece 2004
Then Spencer Reece 2004
The Iliad, Book I [A Friend Consigned to Death] Homer 1974
Real Life Lucie Brock-Broido 1988
Sequestered Writing Carolyn Forché 2003
Tenantry George Scarbrough 1989

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