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Title Author Year
Lay Back the Darkness Edward Hirsch 2003
Holy Innocents Christina Rossetti 1881
Babylon Robert Graves 1918
Pastoral Jennifer Chang 2008
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (audio only) James Wright 1964
R&B (audio only) A. Van Jordan 2007
Regarding Chainsaws Hayden Carruth 2006
The Reservation Adrian C. Louis 2007
The Fish Linda Bierds 1994
The Illiterate William Meredith 1997
The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews Amy Clampitt 1997
Father Outside Nick Flynn 2004
Untitled [I talk to my inner lover] Kabir 2004
Looking for Omar E. Ethelbert Miller 2004
The Orchid Flower Sam Hamill 2002
Spring Snow Arthur Sze 1998
Once in the 40’s William Stafford 1982
Epitaph Eric Pankey 2003
Go, lovely rose! Edmund Waller 1645
The Man Who Never Heard of Frank Sinatra Aaron Fogel 2000

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