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Title Author Year
Poem Alice Notley 2008
Earthy Anecdote Wallace Stevens 1923
In Praise of Their Divorce Tony Hoagland 2010
In Passing Stanley Plumly 2000
The Witch Has Told You a Story Ava Leavell Haymon 2010
In the Village Derek Walcott 2010
Negotiations with a Volcano Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Sharks’ Teeth Kay Ryan 2005
To Her Father with Some Verses Anne Bradstreet 1678
Farewell John Clare 1920
Delta Flight 659 Denise Duhamel 2009
I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic Edward Hirsch 2003
Lay Back the Darkness Edward Hirsch 2003
A Muse Reginald Shepherd 1995
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15) William Shakespeare 1609
Elegy 5 Ovid 1870
The Hand of Glory: The Nurse's Story Richard Harris Barham 1840
Black Jackets Thom Gunn 1994
Orpheus Robert Kelly 2005
Eating the Bones Ellen Bass 2007

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