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Title Author Year
It was a hard thing to undo this knot Gerard Manley Hopkins 2013
“I’m afraid of death” Kathleen Ossip 2013
Self-Portrait Ira Sadoff 2012
New Year’s Morning Helen Hunt Jackson 1892
Magnolia Gerald Stern 2011
Mother’s Day David Young 2011
From “A Hemingway Reader: The Sun Also Also Rises” Robert Fitterman 2009
9773 Comanche Ave. David Trinidad 2010
Fear of the Future John Koethe 2009
Hey You Adrian Blevins 2010
Lying My Head Off Cate Marvin 2007
Olney Hymns, IX [The Contrite Heart] William Cowper 1779
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain James Wright 1992
The Ghazal of What Hurt Peter Cole 2008
Ode to Spring Frederick Seidel 2009
Syntax Reginald Shepherd 2003
Restless Ghost Eric Pankey 2008
From A. Van Jordan 2004
The Lower East Side of Manhattan Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue] Claudia Rankine 2004

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