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Title Author Year
About Foam Caroline Bergvall 2011
Vocation Sandra Beasley 2010
Bermudas Andrew Marvell 1681
We Manage Most When We Manage Small Linda Gregg 2008
How the Pope Is Chosen (audio only) James Tate 1996
Lying My Head Off Cate Marvin 2007
Homosexuality Henri Cole 2007
World Below the Brine Walt Whitman 1891
The Maldive Shark Herman Melville 1888
Unfolded Out of the Folds Walt Whitman 1891
Syntax Reginald Shepherd 2003
R&B (audio only) A. Van Jordan 2007
Essay on Criticism [But most by numbers] Alexander Pope 1711
The Fish Linda Bierds 1994
The Painted Bed Donald Hall 2006
I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run Matthea Harvey 2006
At Melville’s Tomb Hart Crane 1933
Infidelity Stanley Plumly 1989
Bedtime Story Wanda Coleman 1993
Epilogue Robert Lowell 1975

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