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Title Author Year
‘The child is father to the man.’ Gerard Manley Hopkins 2011
Trees Need Not Walk the Earth David Rosenthal 1920
Delta Flight 659 Denise Duhamel 2009
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion] Keith Waldrop 2009
Lights Out Edward Thomas 1917
Raw Goods Inventory Emily Rosko 2006
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls E. E. Cummings 1923
History Robert Lowell 1976
Porch Swing in September Ted Kooser 2005
Gooseberry Season Simon Armitage 2005
Hum Ann Lauterbach 2005
Te Deum Charles Reznikoff 1976
Late September Charles Simic 2002
Shedding Skin Harryette Mullen 1981
To the Oracle at Delphi Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2001
At Baia H.D. 1982
“[Lady of all powers]” Enheduana 1994
How To Orchestrate A Genocide Raffi Joe Wartanian 2025
Fog Emma Lazarus 1889
Let No Charitable Hope Elinor Wylie 2023

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