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Title Author Year
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street Randall Jarrell 1969
Completely Friday Luis García Montero 2010
Compendium of Lost Objects Nicole Cooley 2010
Why They Went Elizabeth Bradfield 2010
William James, Henry James Sarah Gridley 2010
December Moon Brenda Hillman 2010
Voices Sharon Olds 2010
Soliloquy, Act 6 [excerpt] Kenneth Goldsmith 2001
Fuel Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
Lady Tactics (audio only) Anne Waldman 2009
Loam Carl Sandburg 1918
Xicano J. Michael Martinez 2010
corydon & alexis, redux D. A. Powell 2009
The Dusk of Horses James Dickey 1992
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works Phillis Wheatley 1773
[Artfully adorned Aphrodite] (audio only) Sappho 1995
Mother Night James Weldon Johnson 1922
May Day Phillis Levin 2008
What was he saying and to whom Alan Michael Parker 2008
Spirit Birds Stanley Plumly 2008

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