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Title Author Year
From “Please Bury Me in This” [Maybe my arms lifted ...] Allison Benis White 2013
Black Glass Soliloquy Ben Mirov 2012
Essay on Adam Robert Bringhurst 2012
The Maenads Ursula K. Le Guin 2012
Sita Jason Schneiderman 2012
Many Asked Me Not to Forget Them Naomi Shihab Nye 2011
At the Equinox Arthur Sze 2011
At the Carnival Anne Spencer 1922
Extraordinary Rendition Paul Muldoon 2010
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt] David Antin 1993
Complete Destruction William Carlos Williams 1921
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell John Dryden 1658
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain James Wright 1992
Holy Innocents Christina Rossetti 1881
Why Is the Color of Snow? Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
Regarding Chainsaws Hayden Carruth 2006
Heat Denis Johnson 1994
The Reservation Adrian C. Louis 2007
Bedside William Olsen 2007
Shaking the Grass Janice N. Harrington 2007

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