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Title Author Year
Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard Patrick Rosal 2015
Brotherhood Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Song of the Andoumboulou: 166½ Nathaniel Mackey 2015
Human Habitat Alison Hawthorne Deming 2015
Elegy with Apples, Pomegranates, Bees, Butterflies, Thorn Bushes, Oak, Pine, Warblers, Crows, Ants, and Worms Hayan Charara 2015
The Forgotten Madmen of Ménilmontant Frank Stanford 2015
The Resistance and Its Light Pier Paolo Pasolini 2015
Diptych: My Bracelet Jim Moore 2015
I Could Let You Go Thomas Dooley 2014
Lament Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Pantoum Marilyn Hacker 2014
Vantage Alan Shapiro 2014
Base Camp Tom Healy 2013
Our Bodies Break Light Traci Brimhall 2012
Choose Life André Breton 2003
You Can't Survive on Salt Water Kalamu ya Salaam 2010
Talking About New Orleans Jayne Cortez 2009
What Is Broken Is What God Blesses Jimmy Santiago Baca 2009
The Life of Trees Dorianne Laux 2009
Immigrant Blues Li-Young Lee 2008

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