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Title Author Year
Why They Went Elizabeth Bradfield 2010
Voices Sharon Olds 2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia Philip Freneau 1783
Epitaph on a Hare William Cowper 1783
The Shark Judith Beveridge 2004
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek James Dickey 1992
The Visit Jason Shinder 2005
Dreaming About My Father (audio only) Ed Ochester 2008
Essay on Criticism [But most by numbers] Alexander Pope 1711
Me in Paradise Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
Ramallah Bei Dao 2006
Passerby, These are Words Yves Bonnefoy 2006
Sexism David Lehman 1996
Churchgoing Marilyn Nelson 1978
Pickle Belt Theodore Roethke 1932
The Conjugation of the Paramecium Muriel Rukeyser 1968
Kore Robert Creeley 1991
Company of Moths Michael Palmer 2005
Snowman Gu Cheng 2005
Annunciation Jean Valentine 2004

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