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Black Rhinoceros Edward Hirsch 2014
Dear Friends Edwin Arlington Robinson 1897
In the Mountains on a Summer Day Li Bai 1919
‘The child is father to the man.’ Gerard Manley Hopkins 2011
Egg Aleš Šteger 2011
Color - Caste - Denomination - (970) Emily Dickinson 1890
Autumn Evening David Lehman 2010
From “Mean Free Path” Ben Lerner 2010
Adam's Curse W. B. Yeats 1903
Wilderness Carl Sandburg 1918
American Liberty Philip Freneau 1775
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
From A. Van Jordan 2004
The Uses of Poetry William Carlos Williams 1909
Fairy Tale Ron Padgett 2001
Sonnet 1 Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Fantasy Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
This Day Jimmy Santiago Baca 2007
Thing Rae Armantrout 2007
Practice Ellen Bryant Voigt 2002

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