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Title Author Year
Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox Jalal al-Din Rumi 1898
canvas and mirror Evie Shockley 2010
The Present/ Lisa Robertson 2010
The Black Unicorn (audio only) Audre Lorde 1977
Merciles Beaute Geoffrey Chaucer 1375
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day Lydia Maria Child 1844
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
The Sick Child Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
A Table in the Wilderness Li-Young Lee 2001
Poet's Work Lorine Niedecker 2002
Letter from a Haunted Room Lisa Sewell 2006
After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard Charles Wright 1995
On Translation Mónica de la Torre 2002
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is D. H. Lawrence 1964
Northern Pike James Wright 1992
I Was Born Again the First Time I Lost Time Watching a Woman Shira Erlichman 2026
Queer Trivia Night Jenny Johnson 2026
The Globe Michael Collier 2025
Hoops with Nets Mark Halliday 2025
Ode to Aging Bodies Jan Mandell 2024

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