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Title Author Year
The City of God David Baker 2001
A Fear of Old Age Jack Anderson 2009
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion] Keith Waldrop 2009
Book 4, Ode 1 [To Venus] Horace 1673
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek James Dickey 1992
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works Phillis Wheatley 1773
Me in Paradise Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
Derrick Poem (The Lost World) Terrance Hayes 1999
Fifty-Three Eileen Myles 2007
Weather Hettie Jones 2007
Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing Robert Duncan 1968
Love in a Life Robert Browning 1855
Purgatory Maxine Kumin 1965
He “Digesteth Harde Yron” Marianne Moore 1961
What Will You Be? Dennis Lee 1977
Annunciation Jean Valentine 2004
Outside Michael Ryan 2004
Words and the Diminution of All Things Charles Wright 2004
The Dream of the Just Dana Gelinas 2003
Long Island Sound Emma Lazarus 1888

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