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Sita Jason Schneiderman 2012
Winter Heavens George Meredith 1888
At the Carnival Anne Spencer 1922
Dead Horse Thomas Lux 2010
Extraordinary Rendition Paul Muldoon 2010
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt] David Antin 1993
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell John Dryden 1658
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain James Wright 1992
Holy Innocents Christina Rossetti 1881
To the Dead in the Grave-Yard Under My Window Adelaide Crapsey 1913
Why Is the Color of Snow? Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
Heat Denis Johnson 1994
The Reservation Adrian C. Louis 2007
Bedside William Olsen 2007
Shaking the Grass Janice N. Harrington 2007
Like Brooms of Steel (1252) Emily Dickinson 1890
Wildflower Stanley Plumly 1983
The Dancing Gerald Stern 1982
Back Beckian Fritz Goldberg 2005
Song Frank Bidart 2005

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