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Title Author Year
Museum Glyn Maxwell 2000
I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run Matthea Harvey 2006
Birds Again Jim Harrison 2006
The Initiate Charles Simic 1990
Buddhist Barbie Denise Duhamel 1997
The Dancing Gerald Stern 1982
why must itself up every of a park E. E. Cummings 1923
Back Beckian Fritz Goldberg 2005
Father Outside Nick Flynn 2004
Why should a foolish marriage vow John Dryden 1913
Spring Snow Arthur Sze 1998
Passing Through Albuquerque John Balaban 1991
Amo Amas Amat Bernardine Evaristo 2001
Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet Tony Hoagland 1998
Mantle Kevin Young 2025
Holiday cheer or holiday void— Haleh Liza Gafori 2024
Even in Gretna, Hearing the Cashier Talk, I Long for Gretna Alison Pelegrin 2022
Unspooled Carla Rachel Sameth 2021
The Change Has Come Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
I Was a Good Wife Vanessa Angélica Villarreal 2021

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