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Title Author Year
There Is a Bird in My Mouth Natalie Scenters-Zapico 2015
Imagery Archibald MacLeish 2015
Prairie Dawn Willa Cather 1903
Juan Higera Creek Robinson Jeffers 1916
King Lear Lisa Sewell 2014
Loss Carl Adamshick 2013
A Spray of Water: Tanka [one narcissus] Tada Chimako 2010
U-District Incident Report Heather McHugh 2011
Song of the Owl Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1856
This is Lagos John Koethe 2009
Evolution of Danger Tina Chang 2010
Why They Went Elizabeth Bradfield 2010
Voices Sharon Olds 2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia Philip Freneau 1783
The Shark Judith Beveridge 2004
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek James Dickey 1992
Me in Paradise Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
An Unemployed Machinist John Giorno 1970
Annunciation Jean Valentine 2004
This is a Wonderful Poem David Wagoner 1999

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