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Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (audio only) James Wright 1964
Pastoral Jennifer Chang 2008
Essay on Criticism [But most by numbers] Alexander Pope 1711
Science Robert Kelly 2006
Einstein Defining Special Relativity A. Van Jordan 2007
Ballade [The goat scratches so much it can't sleep] François Villon 1965
Drunken Winter Joseph Ceravolo 1994
Change in the Grove of Chickadees Lesle Lewis 2006
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals Norman Dubie 1983
Pickle Belt Theodore Roethke 1932
The Mad Potter John Hollander 1988
The Initiate Charles Simic 1990
Moon Gathering Eleanor Wilner 2004
The Starlings Jesper Svenbro 2003
Sequestered Writing Carolyn Forché 2003
Tenantry George Scarbrough 1989
Epitaph Eric Pankey 2003
Nothing to Save D. H. Lawrence 1964
Minerva Jones Edgar Lee Masters 1916
This Land Remembers Manuel González 2026

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