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Title Author Year
Lay Back the Darkness Edward Hirsch 2003
Mother Night James Weldon Johnson 1922
Secret History Charles Simic 2008
Couture Mark Doty 1995
Einstein Defining Special Relativity A. Van Jordan 2007
Love in a Life Robert Browning 1855
Four Winds Sara Teasdale 1917
Museum Glyn Maxwell 2000
I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run Matthea Harvey 2006
Drunken Winter Joseph Ceravolo 1994
Change in the Grove of Chickadees Lesle Lewis 2006
He “Digesteth Harde Yron” Marianne Moore 1961
Water Music Robert Creeley 1983
The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews Amy Clampitt 1997
At Melville’s Tomb Hart Crane 1933
Tomorrow David Budbill 2005
Sequestered Writing Carolyn Forché 2003
On the Persistence of the Letter as a Form Paul Guest 2003
The Silence Philip Schultz 2002
Ask me no more Thomas Carew 1640

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