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Title Author Year
He “Digesteth Harde Yron” Marianne Moore 1961
One of the Lives W. S. Merwin 1996
Around Us Marvin Bell 2004
The Iliad, Book I [A Friend Consigned to Death] Homer 1974
Epitaph Eric Pankey 2003
Before the Snake Nathaniel Tarn 2002
Nothing to Save D. H. Lawrence 1964
Minerva Jones Edgar Lee Masters 1916
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane Etheridge Knight 1986
Pledge Elizabeth A. I. Powell 2001
Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565 Richard Howard 1994
Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet Tony Hoagland 1998
What the Girl Wore Kathleen Driskell 2016
LETTER VII: Remember to Breathe Margaret Rhee 2026
The Iliad, Book IX [The Embassy] Homer 2023
The Iliad, Book VI [The Price of Honor] Homer 2023
To the Sea Tracey Knapp 2026
Origin Story Esther Lin 2026
Let It Haleh Liza Gafori 2026
Peace Treaty AE Hines 2026

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