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Title Author Year
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals Norman Dubie 1983
California Plush Frank Bidart 1973
The Dirt Eaters Virgil Suárez 2005
Self-Portrait as Miranda Geri Doran 2005
They’ll spend the summer Joshua Beckman 2004
Loading a Boar David Lee 2004
Untitled [I talk to my inner lover] Kabir 2004
The Family Photograph Vona Groarke 2004
Passing Through Albuquerque John Balaban 1991
Mama, Come Back Nellie Wong 1986
Interstate Highway James Applewhite 2002
Ask me no more Thomas Carew 1640
Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet Tony Hoagland 1998
[I, whom Apollo sometime visited,] Robert Louis Stevenson 1918
I Talk Black Lady Brion 2018
I Have Built a Garden … Diana Bellessi 2026
A Song [I was want] Jos Charles 2026
Abecedarian Beginning with Alif Safia Elhillo 2026
Bio Kathy Evans 2026
“Artificial neurons can be trained to kill humans without humans overseeing” K. A. Hays 2026

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