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Title Author Year
The Figure Joseph Fasano 2013
Man Eating Jane Kenyon 2005
far memory Lucille Clifton 1991
Obscurity and Selfhood C. D. Wright 2013
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror [original draft] John Ashbery 1975
The First Olympic Ode [Excerpt] Pindar 1824
Before the Feast of Shushan Anne Spencer 1922
Prophecy Dana Gioia 2012
Superstition Amy Lowell 1919
From “La Pelona as Birdwoman” Rigoberto González 2012
Here City Rick Snyder 2012
Brown of Ossawatomie John Greenleaf Whittier 1859
Winter Heavens George Meredith 1888
Shepheardes Calendar [October] Edmund Spenser 1579
The Gardenia Cornelius Eady 2011
Written on the Banks of the Arun Charlotte Smith 1785
Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot Jalal al-Din Rumi 1898
Wall Street at Night Lola Ridge 1920
To be the thing Dorothea Lasky 2011
A Story About Dying Kevin Prufer 2011

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