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Title Author Year
There’s a certain Slant of light (258) Emily Dickinson 1951
Spring is like a perhaps hand E. E. Cummings 1923
Sestina: Altaforte Ezra Pound 1956
Gettysburg Herman Melville 1866
Post-Modernism James Galvin 1997
Slim Greer in Hell Sterling A. Brown 1980
The Man with Night Sweats Thom Gunn 1994
American Sonnet (35) Wanda Coleman 1998
Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats 1820
To Persuade a LadyCarpe Diem Michael Benedikt 1970
Spenser’s Ireland Marianne Moore 1961
Nearing Autobiography Pattiann Rogers 1997
A Wicker Basket Robert Creeley 1991
I Sing the Body Electric Walt Whitman 1891
Lady Lazarus Sylvia Plath 1981
The Woman at the Washington Zoo Randall Jarrell 1969
Syrinx Amy Clampitt 1997
The Cremation of Sam McGee Robert W. Service 1907
Iris David St. John 1991
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280) Emily Dickinson 1951

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