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Title Author Year
Xicano J. Michael Martinez 2010
An Ode to Himself Ben Jonson 1640
Vision from the Blue Plane-Window Ernesto Cardenal 2009
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair] Jenny Boully 2008
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (audio only) James Wright 1964
Psychoanalysis: An Elegy Jack Spicer 2008
The Fish Linda Bierds 1994
The Illiterate William Meredith 1997
War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles] Christopher Logue 1988
Bedtime Story Wanda Coleman 1993
Epilogue Robert Lowell 1975
Three Seasons Geoffrey G. O’Brien 2007
The Two Philip Levine 2002
The Mutes Denise Levertov 1966
Astigmatism Amy Lowell 1914
Song of Myself John Canaday 2002
The Man Who Never Heard of Frank Sinatra Aaron Fogel 2000
Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565 Richard Howard 1994
Ode to My Son’s Birthmark Michelle Bitting 2026
Mantle Kevin Young 2025

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