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Title Author Year
Stridulation Sonnet Jessica Jacobs 2015
Cotton You Lose in the Field Frank Stanford 2015
song in the backyard: a golden shovel for Rihanna (audio only) Evie Shockley 2013
Lion Felling a Bull Robyn Schiff 2014
Compensation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1905
Wine Tasting Kim Addonizio 2013
Muffin of Sunsets Elaine Equi 2013
Gulls William Carlos Williams 1917
The Maenads Ursula K. Le Guin 2012
The New Year Emma Lazarus 1882
Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew Ross Gay 2011
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell John Dryden 1658
Me and the Otters Dorothea Lasky 2010
Ships That Pass in the Night Paul Laurence Dunbar 1899
The City of God David Baker 2001
Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me John Rybicki 2008
The Celestial Surgeon Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
From A. Van Jordan 2004
The Widening Sky Edward Hirsch 2003
Letter [Persephone to Demeter] Rachel Zucker 2003

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