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Title Author Year
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [I listen to songs] Tada Chimako 2010
Civilization Carl Phillips 2011
Origins [The Flowering Breaker Detonates Its Surf] (audio only) Derek Walcott 1964
Across a Great Wilderness without You Keetje Kuipers 2010
Negotiations with a Volcano Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
The Ripple Effect Jamey Dunham 2009
Delta Flight 659 Denise Duhamel 2009
Book 4, Ode 1 [To Venus] Horace 1673
Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,] Karen Volkman 2008
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [Shut, shut the door] Alexander Pope 1735
Red Slippers Amy Lowell 1916
This City Liam Rector 1984
At Night the States Alice Notley 2006
Bedside William Olsen 2007
Pickle Belt Theodore Roethke 1932
So If You Love Me Ruth Herschberger 1969
Momentum Catherine Doty 2005
By ways remote and distant waters sped (101) Gaius Valerius Catullus 1896
The Visitation Brigit Pegeen Kelly 1988
Bottom Feeders Arielle Hebert 2026

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