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Title Author Year
The Fifth Dream: Bullets and Deserts and Borders Benjamin Alire Sáenz 2006
Song of the Andoumboulou: 50 Nathaniel Mackey 2006
To the Trespasser David Barber 2006
The Past Barbara Guest 2005
The Culture of Glass Thylias Moss 2006
Credible Information, 1999 - 2003 Mark Pawlak 2000
Privilege of Being (audio only) Robert Hass 1988
Space Station Tom Sleigh 2005
Wildflower Stanley Plumly 1983
Purgatory Maxine Kumin 1965
In California During the Gulf War Denise Levertov 1992
Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow Judy Jordan 1999
The Orange Bears Kenneth Patchen 1957
My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry James Tate 1972
Gettysburg Herman Melville 1866
What Will You Be? Dennis Lee 1977
Churchgoing Marilyn Nelson 1978
In Memoriam Paul Celan Edward Hirsch 1994
Call Me Ishmael Jackson Mac Low 1972
How it comes to pass Megan Johnson 2005

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