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Title Author Year
An Unemployed Machinist John Giorno 1970
Lights Out Edward Thomas 1917
The Painted Bed Donald Hall 2006
I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run Matthea Harvey 2006
Birds Again Jim Harrison 2006
why must itself up every of a park E. E. Cummings 1923
The Beef Epitaph Michael Benedikt 1976
Talking to Patrizia Kenneth Koch 1994
Back Beckian Fritz Goldberg 2005
Go Greyhound Bob Hicok 2004
Spring Snow Arthur Sze 1998
Passing Through Albuquerque John Balaban 1991
The Mutes Denise Levertov 1966
Interstate Highway James Applewhite 2002
The Man Who Never Heard of Frank Sinatra Aaron Fogel 2000
Pledge Elizabeth A. I. Powell 2001
Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet Tony Hoagland 1998
[I finish The Lover and we take a walk.] Nicole Tallman 2025
Compensation Claude McKay 1912
One Moment Touching All the Others Jeff Hardin 2017

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