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Title Author Year
“Ferrum” [Excerpt] M. NourbeSe Philip 2008
Black Jackets Thom Gunn 1994
My Shoes Charles Simic 1971
Language W. S. Merwin 2007
Beloved, my Beloved... (Sonnet 20) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850
Museum Glyn Maxwell 2000
O'Connor at Andalusia Floyd Skloot 2006
War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles] Christopher Logue 1988
Dishwater Ted Kooser 2004
Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey Hayden Carruth 1996
Breakfast Minnie Bruce Pratt 2003
The Two Philip Levine 2002
Come Up From the Fields Father Walt Whitman 1891
Ask me no more Thomas Carew 1640
In Memory of M. B. Anna Akhmatova 1973
The Subalterns Thomas Hardy 1902
Buried Olivia E. Sears 2026
What Now Jacob Griffin Hall 2022
This Land Remembers Manuel González 2026
Statement of Purpose Kyle Carrero Lopez 2026

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