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Title Author Year
‘The child is father to the man.’ Gerard Manley Hopkins 2011
Vertical Linda Pastan 2010
Alive Naomi Shihab Nye 2010
Health Rafael Campo 2010
Since I’m Condemned Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
Sharks’ Teeth Kay Ryan 2005
Xicano J. Michael Martinez 2010
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion] Keith Waldrop 2009
What Is Broken Is What God Blesses Jimmy Santiago Baca 2009
Mr. Flood's Party Edwin Arlington Robinson 1921
The Violet Jane Taylor 1806
Still Life Marianne Boruch 2008
I Would Like to Describe Zbigniew Herbert 2007
Thing Rae Armantrout 2007
Epithalamium Matthew Rohrer 2001
Learning Judith Viorst 1981
The Old Lizard Federico García Lorca 2005
Loading a Boar David Lee 2004
The Painting John Balaban 2003
Skating in Harlem, Christmas Day Cynthia Zarin 2002

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