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Title Author Year
[Sometimes I don't know if I'm having a feeling] Matthew Siegel 2015
The Kindness Jan Beatty 2015
Passers-by Carl Sandburg 2015
Within the Circuit of this Plodding Life Henry David Thoreau 2014
Reverse Suicide (audio only) Matt Rasmussen 2013
Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981) Campbell McGrath 2014
Mag Carl Sandburg 1916
Coming and Going Tony Hoagland 2013
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké Angelina Weld Grimké 1914
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage Wallace Stevens 1919
Textbook & Absence (Anatomy) Catherine Barnett 2012
The First Olympic Ode [Excerpt] Pindar 1824
Tanka Diary [Awakened too early on Saturday morning] Harryette Mullen 2012
Mars Poetica Wyn Cooper 2012
Faust [Go, find yourself a more obedient slave!] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808
Birth Tina Chang 2012
New Year’s Morning Helen Hunt Jackson 1892
in the decision of a beginning [3] Rusty Morrison 2011
Poem Alice Notley 2008
Birch Cynthia Zarin 2011

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