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Title Author Year
Camp of No Return James Tate 2012
Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox Jalal al-Din Rumi 1898
Magnolia Gerald Stern 2011
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the hot water in] Tada Chimako 2010
The Ear is an Organ Made for Love E. Ethelbert Miller 2010
Mexico City Blues [182nd Chorus] Jack Kerouac 1959
Where I Live Maxine Kumin 2010
To Her Father with Some Verses Anne Bradstreet 1678
I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic Edward Hirsch 2003
A Muse Reginald Shepherd 1995
Red Slippers Amy Lowell 1916
Landing Under Water, I See Roots Annie Finch 2003
Tender Buttons [A Chair] Gertrude Stein 1914
The Mahogany Tree William Makepeace Thackeray 1882
At the Very Beginning Katie Peterson 2006
War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles] Christopher Logue 1988
Love Incarnate Frank Bidart 1997
Catch a Little Rhyme Eve Merriam 1966
Epilogue Robert Lowell 1975
A Newborn Girl at Passover Nan Cohen 1998

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