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Title Author Year
The Things Donald Hall 2011
The Trouble Ball [excerpt] Martín Espada 2011
Swimming in the Presence of Lurid Opposition Sawako Nakayasu 2010
Health Rafael Campo 2010
Of Being Numerous, 13 George Oppen 2002
Bullfight critics ranked in rows [excerpt] Domingo Ortega 1962
To An Athlete Dying Young A. E. Housman 1896
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio James Wright 1959
Seance at Tennis Dana Goodyear 2005
Days of Me Stuart Dischell 2003
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July Billy Collins 1998
Baseball and Writing Marianne Moore 1961
A Boy Juggling a Soccer Ball Christopher Merrill 2001

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