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Title Author Year
Song of the Owl Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1856
Acrobat Elise Paschen 2010
The Emperor Matthew Rohrer 2010
Hope Wanted Alive Terese Svoboda 2010
Let Me Disappear Ray Gonzalez 2009
Evolution of Danger Tina Chang 2010
Reminiscence Stéphane Mallarmé 1994
The Amaranth Vachel Lindsay 1914
December Moon Brenda Hillman 2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia Philip Freneau 1783
The Shark Judith Beveridge 2004
The City of God David Baker 2001
A Fear of Old Age Jack Anderson 2009
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion] Keith Waldrop 2009
In Aporia Akilah Oliver 2009
Book 4, Ode 1 [To Venus] Horace 1673
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek James Dickey 1992
Me in Paradise Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
Derrick Poem (The Lost World) Terrance Hayes 1999
Fifty-Three Eileen Myles 2007

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