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Title Author Year
The Lower East Side of Manhattan Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
Red Slippers Amy Lowell 1916
A Song for New Year’s Eve William Cullen Bryant 1864
Third Charm from Masque of Queens Ben Jonson 1609
Credo Matthew Rohrer 2001
The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke David Lehman 1986
Buddhist Barbie Denise Duhamel 1997
Portrait in Georgia Jean Toomer 1923
Last Supper Charles Wright 2005
The Seekers of Lice Arthur Rimbaud 2004
homage to my hips (audio only) Lucille Clifton 1983
Dishwater Ted Kooser 2004
The Satyr’s Heart Brigit Pegeen Kelly 2004
The Congressional Library [excerpt] Amy Lowell 1955
Love Poem Gregory Orr 2002
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly [excerpt] Ezra Pound 1956
I Come from a Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen Kari Gunter-Seymour 2020
1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed LeAnne Howe 2020
That god forbid that made me first your slave (Sonnet 58) William Shakespeare 1904
Sculpture with Fragments of Stuart Hall Christian Campbell 2018

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