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Title Author Year
The Book of a Thousand Eyes [A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding] Lyn Hejinian 2012
Ghost Story Matthew Dickman 2011
A Poem Robert Creeley 2006
Poem Alice Notley 2008
Ants Ravi Shankar 2010
Liner Notes to an Imaginary Playlist (audio only) Terrance Hayes 2010
Let Me Disappear Ray Gonzalez 2009
My Aunts Meghan O’Rourke 2010
Dangerous Astronomy Sherman Alexie 2009
A Fear of Old Age Jack Anderson 2009
The Origin Jane Mead 2008
Shaking the Grass Janice N. Harrington 2007
What [The flower sermon] Ron Silliman 1988
Museum Glyn Maxwell 2000
Curse Pablo Neruda 1973
My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry James Tate 1972
Churchgoing Marilyn Nelson 1978
Mortal Limit Robert Penn Warren 1985
Purgatory Maxine Kumin 1965
In California During the Gulf War Denise Levertov 1992

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