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Poetry Anonymous Prageeta Sharma 2010
Washington’s Monument, February, 1885 Walt Whitman 1891
Metropolitan Nightmare Stephen Vincent Benét 1933
Summer Past John Gray 1893
An Ode to Himself Ben Jonson 1640
Babylon Robert Graves 1918
Thanksgiving Letter from Harry Carl Dennis 2007
Einstein Defining Special Relativity A. Van Jordan 2007
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue] Claudia Rankine 2004
Love in a Life Robert Browning 1855
Safe Sex Donald Hall 2006
Drunken Winter Joseph Ceravolo 1994
Change in the Grove of Chickadees Lesle Lewis 2006
Infidelity Stanley Plumly 1989
The Mad Potter John Hollander 1988
Tomorrow David Budbill 2005
Outside Michael Ryan 2004
The Orchid Flower Sam Hamill 2002
Spring Snow Arthur Sze 1998
The Blue Stairs Barbara Guest 2003

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