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Title Author Year
The Lower East Side of Manhattan Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
Red Slippers Amy Lowell 1916
A True Poem Lloyd Schwartz 2000
Blueprint Tom Sleigh 2007
Exquisite Politics Denise Duhamel 1997
How like a winter hath my absence been (Sonnet 97) William Shakespeare 1609
An Unemployed Machinist John Giorno 1970
Country Fair Charles Simic 1991
The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke David Lehman 1986
War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles] Christopher Logue 1988
Song Frank Bidart 2005
Last Supper Charles Wright 2005
Stein 100: A Feather Likeness of the Justice Chair Jackson Mac Low 1999
To. . . René Char 2004
The Satyr’s Heart Brigit Pegeen Kelly 2004
Go Greyhound Bob Hicok 2004
In the Next Galaxy Ruth Stone 2002
Blue May Swenson 1994
Bearing Down Tina Chang 2026
Deportation Brenda Cárdenas 2025

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