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Title Author Year
Bound Aline Murray Kilmer 2014
The Bee James Dickey 1967
To My Best Friend's Big Sister Ross Gay 2013
On the Road to the Sea Charlotte Mew 1914
A Greek Island Edward Hirsch 2013
Summer Amy Lowell 1912
Essay on Man, Epistle I [excerpt] Alexander Pope 1734
canvas and mirror Evie Shockley 2010
The Witch Has Told You a Story Ava Leavell Haymon 2010
Sharks’ Teeth Kay Ryan 2005
To Her Father with Some Verses Anne Bradstreet 1678
Drawing from Life Reginald Shepherd 1996
“Ferrum” [Excerpt] M. NourbeSe Philip 2008
Mother Herman de Coninck 2006
Thing Rae Armantrout 2007
Birds Again Jim Harrison 2006
The Midnight Court [Twas my custom to stroll] Brian Merriman 2006
The Family Photograph Vona Groarke 2004
The Ghost Has No Home Jeff Clark 1997
Come Up From the Fields Father Walt Whitman 1891

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