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Title Author Year
Caesarion C. P. Cavafy 2008
Epitaph on a Hare William Cowper 1783
What Do I Care Sara Teasdale 1920
An Ode to Himself Ben Jonson 1640
Vision from the Blue Plane-Window Ernesto Cardenal 2009
Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon] Gertrude Stein 1914
Untitled [To see this evil from its core] Philip Lamantia 2008
The Widening Sky Edward Hirsch 2003
Language W. S. Merwin 2007
Darwin’s Finches Deborah Digges 1986
Credo Matthew Rohrer 2001
The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews Amy Clampitt 1997
San Sepolcro Jorie Graham 1995
Hard Night Christian Wiman 2005
They’ll spend the summer Joshua Beckman 2004
Around Us Marvin Bell 2004
Central Park, Carousel Meena Alexander 2004
Tenantry George Scarbrough 1989
The Congressional Library [excerpt] Amy Lowell 1955
The Two Philip Levine 2002

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