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Title Author Year
When They Die We Change Our Minds About Them Jennifer Michael Hecht 2014
The World Seems … Gregory Orr 2014
On Viewing the Skull and Bones of a Wolf Alexander Posey 1910
Holding Pattern Timothy Liu 2014
The Odyssey, Book 11: ll. 538-556 Rowan Ricardo Phillips 2013
from Oracles for Youth Caroline Gilman 1852
On Disappearing Major Jackson 2013
Late August on the Lido John Hollander 1993
Incomplete Lioness Linda Bierds 2013
Giraffes Kimiko Hahn 2013
For My Grandmother’s Perfume, Norell Nickole Brown 2013
Excelsior Walt Whitman 1891
Tang Bruce Cohen 2013
From “The Princess” [Sweet and low, sweet and low] Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2013
The High-School Lawn Thomas Hardy 1925
Mimosa Mary Ruefle 2013
Rocket Fantastic [He’s really beautiful.] Gabrielle Calvocoressi 2013
Domestic Deborah Landau 2013
A Sonnet from the Archive of Love’s Failures, Volumes 1-3.5 Million Anne Boyer 2013
Self-Portrait as Mae West One-Liner Paisley Rekdal 2013

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