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Title Author Year
Purgatorio, Canto X Dante Alighieri 1867
Couture Mark Doty 1995
Reasons To Survive November (audio only) Tony Hoagland 2006
Quatrains Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
To Anthea Who May Command Him Any Thing Robert Herrick 1648
They that have power to hurt and will do none (Sonnet 94) William Shakespeare 1609
Exquisite Politics Denise Duhamel 1997
Darwin’s Finches Deborah Digges 1986
I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run Matthea Harvey 2006
Credo Matthew Rohrer 2001
Love Incarnate Frank Bidart 1997
Last Supper Charles Wright 2005
Of Memory and Distance Russell Edson 2005
Searchers D. Nurkse 2005
The Odyssey, Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree] Homer 1961
The Satyr’s Heart Brigit Pegeen Kelly 2004
Central Park, Carousel Meena Alexander 2004
Go Greyhound Bob Hicok 2004
Song of Myself John Canaday 2002
Shafro Terrance Hayes 1999

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