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Title Author Year
The Resistance and Its Light Pier Paolo Pasolini 2015
Wait Galway Kinnell 2016
"the people want the regime to fall" (audio only) Evie Shockley 2013
The Long Hand Wishes It Was Used Jackie Clark 2014
A Love Lorenzo Calogero 2013
The Old Stoic Emily Brontë 1846
Work Without Hope Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1825
The Amaranth Vachel Lindsay 1914
Why They Went Elizabeth Bradfield 2010
Merciles Beaute Geoffrey Chaucer 1375
Shanked on the Red Bed Susan Wheeler 1998
What Is Broken Is What God Blesses Jimmy Santiago Baca 2009
The Phoenix Hafez 1876
Appeal to the Grammarians Paul Violi 2007
Freeway 280 Lorna Dee Cervantes 1981
To. . . René Char 2004
blessing the boats Lucille Clifton 2001
It Happens Like This James Tate 2003
Songs for the People Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1896
The Coming of Light Mark Strand 2002

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