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Sexism David Lehman 1996
Francesco and Clare David St. John 1991
There’s a certain Slant of light (258) Emily Dickinson 1951
Spring is like a perhaps hand E. E. Cummings 1923
Sestina: Altaforte Ezra Pound 1956
San Sepolcro Jorie Graham 1995
Southern Road Sterling A. Brown 1980
The Ruined Maid Thomas Hardy 1901
Exsultate Jubilate Timothy Liu 1999
Mastectomy Wanda Coleman 1993
Portland Taxis Michael Benedikt 1980
Jeffers Mark Jarman 1992
The House on Moscow Street Marilyn Nelson 1990
My Father’s Geography Afaa Michael Weaver 1992
To the Moon [fragment] Percy Bysshe Shelley 1824
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow Robert Duncan 1960
Learning Judith Viorst 1981
Lady Lazarus Sylvia Plath 1981
The Woman at the Washington Zoo Randall Jarrell 1969
Syrinx Amy Clampitt 1997

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