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Title Author Year
It was a hard thing to undo this knot Gerard Manley Hopkins 2013
Camp of No Return James Tate 2012
Poem [This beauty that I see] James Schuyler 1993
Faust [Go, find yourself a more obedient slave!] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808
Birth Tina Chang 2012
Poetry is Emilio Villa 2012
The Gaffe C. K. Williams 2010
How the Pope Is Chosen (audio only) James Tate 1996
Epitaph on a Hare William Cowper 1783
The Ghazal of What Hurt Peter Cole 2008
XXIX [Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind] William Wordsworth 1815
Untitled [To see this evil from its core] Philip Lamantia 2008
Reasons To Survive November (audio only) Tony Hoagland 2006
Eating the Bones Ellen Bass 2007
I Would Like to Describe Zbigniew Herbert 2007
Posthumous Remorse Charles Baudelaire 2006
Exquisite Politics Denise Duhamel 1997
Exquisite Candidate Denise Duhamel 1997
San Sepolcro Jorie Graham 1995
A Newborn Girl at Passover Nan Cohen 1998

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