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Title Author Year
The Ghazal of What Hurt Peter Cole 2008
The Lower East Side of Manhattan Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
Surreptitious Kissing Denis Johnson 1994
Karma Edwin Arlington Robinson 1925
The Blue Terrance Terrance Hayes 2006
Achill Derek Mahon 1991
Talking to Patrizia Kenneth Koch 1994
The Legend Garrett Hongo 1988
December 2, 2002 Juliana Spahr 2005
Self-Portrait as Miranda Geri Doran 2005
The Seekers of Lice Arthur Rimbaud 2004
Duende Tracy K. Smith 2004
They’ll spend the summer Joshua Beckman 2004
The Odyssey, Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree] Homer 1961
The Family Photograph Vona Groarke 2004
After the Grand Perhaps Lucie Brock-Broido 1988
Tract William Carlos Williams 1962
[I, whom Apollo sometime visited,] Robert Louis Stevenson 1918
Position Paper #53: National Archivist Andrea Lawlor 2026
blackgirl looking at blackbird Lucille Clifton 2026

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