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Title Author Year
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia Philip Freneau 1783
The Shark Judith Beveridge 2004
Caboose Thoughts Carl Sandburg 1918
The Ghazal of What Hurt Peter Cole 2008
An Ode to Himself Ben Jonson 1640
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek James Dickey 1992
Dreaming About My Father (audio only) Ed Ochester 2008
Me in Paradise Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
Eating the Bones Ellen Bass 2007
Prologue of the Earthly Paradise William Morris 1868
An Unemployed Machinist John Giorno 1970
Safe Sex Donald Hall 2006
My Life’s Calling Deborah Digges 2004
Why Latin Should Still Be Taught in High School Christopher Bursk 2006
You, Andrew Marvell Archibald MacLeish 1930
Called into Play A. R. Ammons 1997
My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry James Tate 1972
The Dancing Gerald Stern 1982
Nothing Stays Put Amy Clampitt 1997
Channel Firing Thomas Hardy 1914

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