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Title Author Year
Distance John Boyle O'Reilly 1892
Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine Amy E. King 2010
Birds in the Night Luis Cernuda 2010
Allende Phillip Lopate 2009
Angel Shark Hailey Leithauser 2004
The Shark’s Parlor James Dickey 1992
Untitled [You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old] Rudyard Kipling 1901
Caboose Thoughts Carl Sandburg 1918
Poems Done on a Late Night Car Carl Sandburg 1916
An Excuse For Not Returning the Visit of a Friend Mei-Yao Ch'en 1971
Death Barged In Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno 2009
Ballad of a Wedding Sir John Suckling 1646
Another Song [Are they shadows that we see?] Samuel Daniel 1610
Triad Adelaide Crapsey 1915
Embodies Jorie Graham 2008
The Anti-Suffragists Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1911
Dreaming About My Father (audio only) Ed Ochester 2008
Hospital: strange lights Jean Valentine 2008
Among the Things He Does Not Deserve Dan Albergotti 2008
Envoy Robert Louis Stevenson 1887

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