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Title Author Year
Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746 William Collins 1746
The Dancers Inherit the Party Ian Hamilton Finlay 2012
A Fox's Tail is Called a Brush Emily Pettit 2012
Ghost Elephants Jean Valentine 2012
Heirloom Nikky Finney 2011
Untitled [1950 June 27] Don Mee Choi 2011
The Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness Anne Boyer 2011
A Story About Dying Kevin Prufer 2011
The Nurse Michael Blumenthal 2011
Letter from Town: The Almond Tree D. H. Lawrence 1920
Traveling Light Linda Pastan 2011
Again, She Tells the First Story Barbara Jane Reyes 2011
A lane of Yellow led the eye (1650) Emily Dickinson 1890
Water Edwin Torres 2010
The Emperor Matthew Rohrer 2010
Vocation Sandra Beasley 2010
The Black Virginity Mina Loy 1915
Let Me Disappear Ray Gonzalez 2009
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street Randall Jarrell 1969
Meeting with My Father in the Orchard Homero Aridjis 2010

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