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The Time Machine Laura Kasischke 2017
Pilate’s Wife’s Dream Charlotte Brontë 1846
Honestly, John Ashbery 2015
Dark Matter and Dark Energy Alicia Ostriker 2015
The Dream Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
Bound Aline Murray Kilmer 2014
Before and Every After Marianne Boruch 2014
real poem (personal statement) Rachel Zucker 2014
Another Poem for Mothers Erin Belieu 2014
From Tanka Diary Harryette Mullen 2014
Beasts Carmen Giménez 2013
A Love Lorenzo Calogero 2013
Flush or Faunus Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2013
here rests Lucille Clifton 1991
A Meadow Lucie Brock-Broido 2011
Negotiations with a Volcano Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Day [excerpt] Kenneth Goldsmith 2003
Elegy 5 Ovid 1870
Balance Adam Zagajewski 2008
The Aeneid, Book VI [First, the sky and the earth] Virgil 2006

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