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Title Author Year
The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott’s Collected Poems Yusef Komunyakaa 2011
Putting on My Face Tada Chimako 2010
The Interloper Thomas Hardy 1917
Flags Elana Bell 2011
August, 1953 David Wojahn 2011
After Us Nikola Madzirov 2011
The Hesperides Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1832
Six Persimmons Shin Yu Pai 2010
from People Close To You Crystal Williams 2010
Drench Anne Stevenson 2010
Cape Coast Castle Yusef Komunyakaa 2010
Of Being Numerous, 13 George Oppen 2002
45 I Give Up My Identity Jerome Rothenberg 2003
Chaos Is the New Calm Wyn Cooper 2010
Temper Beth Bachmann 2010
April James Schuyler 2010
Graves We Filled Before the Fire Gabrielle Calvocoressi 2010
How to Get Riches Benjamin Franklin 1740
Haymaking John Clare 1835
In a Breath Carl Sandburg 1916

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