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Title Author Year
Vocation Sandra Beasley 2010
Images Richard Aldington 1916
We Manage Most When We Manage Small Linda Gregg 2008
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt] David Antin 1993
Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon Benjamin Alire Sáenz 2010
The Love-Hat Relationship Aaron Belz 2010
Portrait d'une Femme Ezra Pound 1912
Rome Brigit Pegeen Kelly 2009
What Do I Care Sara Teasdale 1920
Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl (audio only) Allen Ginsberg 1975
Mother Night James Weldon Johnson 1922
Secret History Charles Simic 2008
R&B (audio only) A. Van Jordan 2007
Letter [Persephone to Demeter] Rachel Zucker 2003
Psychoanalysis: An Elegy Jack Spicer 2008
Like Brooms of Steel (1252) Emily Dickinson 1890
why must itself up every of a park E. E. Cummings 1923
Bedtime Story Wanda Coleman 1993
Infidelity Stanley Plumly 1989
Back Beckian Fritz Goldberg 2005

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