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Title Author Year
The Heron Linda Hogan 2008
Return John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester 1714
Don Juan [If from great nature's or our own abyss] Lord George Gordon Byron 1819
To Anthea Who May Command Him Any Thing Robert Herrick 1648
Tender Buttons [A Chair] Gertrude Stein 1914
At the Very Beginning Katie Peterson 2006
Catch a Little Rhyme Eve Merriam 1966
Second Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956
The Dancing Gerald Stern 1982
The Seekers of Lice Arthur Rimbaud 2004
The Painting John Balaban 2003
Breakfast Minnie Bruce Pratt 2003
Shafro Terrance Hayes 1999
Tract William Carlos Williams 1962
Sentimental Education Mary Ruefle 2000
A Divine Image William Blake 1794
Daughters, 1900 Marilyn Nelson 1990
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly [excerpt] Ezra Pound 1956
The Subalterns Thomas Hardy 1902
Tagaq Sutra Kazim Ali 2020

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