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Title Author Year
Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monostich Past 45 francine j. harris 2018
Notes on the Peanut June Jordan 2017
Praisesong Sarah Browning 2017
Soul Train Allison Joseph 2017
Sorrow Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
[we fight back to control the outside] kari edwards 2016
Gabriel Adrienne Rich 2016
Action Poem Helen Hoyt 1915
Choose Life André Breton 2003
What the Angels Left Marie Howe 1988
In the Surgical Theatre Dana Levin 1999
Patience Kay Ryan 2000
Memorial Day for the War Dead Yehuda Amichai 1977
Momentum Catherine Doty 2005
I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] Theodore Roethke 1961
Helen in Egypt, Eidolon, Book III: 4 H.D. 1982
The Tinajera Notebook Forrest Gander 2011
[Someone running with his head aflame …] Daniel Lipara 2026
Goodness Afaa Michael Weaver 2026
Goodbye Geoffrey Brock 2025

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