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Title Author Year
Rosemary Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
From “Please Bury Me in This” [I am writing to you ...] Allison Benis White 2017
Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah Jacqueline Osherow 2016
Electrons Ruth Madievsky 2016
The Way One Animal Trusts Another Carl Phillips 2016
Dear Melissa: [a curve billed thrasher] TC Tolbert 2016
Reverse Suicide (audio only) Matt Rasmussen 2013
I Am Not a Myth Matthew Hittinger 2014
Onomatomania Thomas Lux 2014
Sappho and Phaon: Sonnet III Mary Robinson 1796
Tender Buttons [A Little Called Pauline] Gertrude Stein 1914
Faust [Go, find yourself a more obedient slave!] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808
Self-Portrait Ira Sadoff 2012
Blowjob (Vulgar Slang) (audio only) Sharon Olds 2011
Magnolia Gerald Stern 2011
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon] Tada Chimako 2010
Birch Cynthia Zarin 2011
Mother’s Day David Young 2011
Shaving Your Father’s Face Michael Dickman 2010
Bermudas Andrew Marvell 1681

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