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Title Author Year
When Ecstasy is Inconvenient Lorine Niedecker 2002
My Life’s Calling Deborah Digges 2004
Ramallah Bei Dao 2006
St. Peter and the Angel Denise Levertov 1984
Yes Denise Duhamel 1999
Spenser’s Ireland Marianne Moore 1961
Etymological Dirge Heather McHugh 1999
Kore Robert Creeley 1991
Sexism David Lehman 1996
Churchgoing Marilyn Nelson 1978
Insect Assassins Jackson Mac Low 1972
The Great Black Heron Denise Levertov 1996
The Conjugation of the Paramecium Muriel Rukeyser 1968
Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow Judy Jordan 1999
Hands Siv Cedering 1973
Painters Muriel Rukeyser 2005
Yellow Beak Stephen Dobyns 2005
I, Up they soar Inger Christensen 1989
The Blue Stairs Barbara Guest 2003
A Bedtime Story For Mr. Lamb Arthur Nevis 2003

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