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Title Author Year
Early Memory January Gill O’Neil 2010
Dear Pretty Youth Thomas Shadwell 1674
On Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics (audio only) W. H. Auden 1964
Across a Great Wilderness without You Keetje Kuipers 2010
Distance John Boyle O'Reilly 1892
Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine Amy E. King 2010
Birds in the Night Luis Cernuda 2010
Allende Phillip Lopate 2009
Angel Shark Hailey Leithauser 2004
The Shark’s Parlor James Dickey 1992
Untitled [You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old] Rudyard Kipling 1901
In a Breath Carl Sandburg 1916
The Maldive Shark Herman Melville 1888
Caboose Thoughts Carl Sandburg 1918
An Excuse For Not Returning the Visit of a Friend Mei-Yao Ch'en 1971
Death Barged In Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno 2009
Kelp Jeffrey Yang 2008
In Aporia Akilah Oliver 2009
Against Elegies Marilyn Hacker 1994
Ballad of a Wedding Sir John Suckling 1646

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