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Babylon Robert Graves 1918
Mother Night James Weldon Johnson 1922
The Origin Jane Mead 2008
If a Wilderness Carl Phillips 2007
Joseph Cornell, with Box Michael Dumanis 2007
Einstein Defining Special Relativity A. Van Jordan 2007
The First Marriage Peter Meinke 1996
Love in a Life Robert Browning 1855
What [The flower sermon] Ron Silliman 1988
Museum Glyn Maxwell 2000
Lights Out Edward Thomas 1917
In California During the Gulf War Denise Levertov 1992
The Initiate Charles Simic 1990
Pickle Belt Theodore Roethke 1932
The Great Black Heron Denise Levertov 1996
The Iliad, Book I [A Friend Consigned to Death] Homer 1974
Moon Gathering Eleanor Wilner 2004
The Clerk’s Tale Spencer Reece 2004
Outside Michael Ryan 2004
Sequestered Writing Carolyn Forché 2003

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