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Title Author Year
Incident on the Road to the Capital Dara Barrois/Dixon 2010
Love Poem from South China, 1999 Rachel DeWoskin 2009
Snowball Journal Phillip Lopate 2009
Soliloquy, Act 6 [excerpt] Kenneth Goldsmith 2001
I am Raftery the Poet Anthony Raftery 1903
The Going April Bernard 2009
The Uses of Distortion Caroline Crumpacker 2008
Travel Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Heading Home Daniel Mark Epstein 2009
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion] Keith Waldrop 2009
Little Ending Charles Wright 2009
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep August Kleinzahler 2003
Pilgrimage Natasha Trethewey 2006
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue] Claudia Rankine 2004
Traveling Malena Mörling 2006
California Plush Frank Bidart 1973
Out-of-the-Body Travel Stanley Plumly 1974
Slow Waltz Through Inflatable Landscape Christian Hawkey 2005
Go Greyhound Bob Hicok 2004
Passing Through Albuquerque John Balaban 1991

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