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Title Author Year
Watermelons Charles Simic 1974
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Randall Jarrell 1969
A Silence Amy Clampitt 1997
What Will You Be? Dennis Lee 1977
Sexism David Lehman 1996
Francesco and Clare David St. John 1991
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
To the Republic James Galvin 1997
Riverbank Blues Sterling A. Brown 1980
The Voice Thomas Hardy 1915
An Old-Fashioned Song John Hollander 1993
The Haunting Alan Shapiro 2005
Back Beckian Fritz Goldberg 2005
In the Greenhouse Eugenio Montale 2004
Apostrophe Angie Estes 2005
Constellations Steven Heighton 2004
The Helmet A. F. Moritz 2004
How it comes to pass Megan Johnson 2005

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