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Title Author Year
Exile Alicia Ostriker 2009
Yellow Bowl Rachel Contreni Flynn 2009
Against Elegies Marilyn Hacker 1994
Poetry Is a Destructive Force Wallace Stevens 1980
All That’s Left Jack Hirschman 2008
Looking Back in My Eighty-First Year Maxine Kumin 2008
Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,] Karen Volkman 2008
Glen Uig Richard Hugo 2008
Among the Things He Does Not Deserve Dan Albergotti 2008
Envoy Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
Pockets Howard Nemerov 1975
Love Not Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 1850
Anna, Thy Charms Robert Burns 1788
Father’s Day James Tate 2008
Derrick Poem (The Lost World) Terrance Hayes 1999
Nightsong Philip Booth 1999
Of Distress Being Humiliated by the Classical Chinese Poets Hayden Carruth 2006
Heavy Snowfall in a Year Gone Past Laura Jensen 1977
Units Albert Goldbarth 2007
Koi Katie Ford 2008

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