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Title Author Year
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall] Harryette Mullen 2010
Dead Horse Thomas Lux 2010
Spring in New Hampshire Claude McKay 1920
Lying My Head Off Cate Marvin 2007
Olney Hymns, IX [The Contrite Heart] William Cowper 1779
Nearly a Valediction Marilyn Hacker 1994
Syntax Reginald Shepherd 2003
A Noun Sentence Mahmoud Darwish 2007
Further Notice Philip Whalen 2008
Bucolics [LIX] Maurice Manning 2007
The Painted Bed Donald Hall 2006
Birds Again Jim Harrison 2006
California Plush Frank Bidart 1973
Talking to Patrizia Kenneth Koch 1994
Losing Track Denise Levertov 1964
Identity Crisis F. D. Reeve 2005
They’ll spend the summer Joshua Beckman 2004
The Congressional Library [excerpt] Amy Lowell 1955
Interstate Highway James Applewhite 2002
Blue May Swenson 1994

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