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Title Author Year
Fan-Piece for Her Imperial Lord Ezra Pound 2017
[London, my beautiful] F. S. Flint 2017
Night Falls Like a Button Chen Chen 2017
Villagers Ari Banias 2016
I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come Joseph Auslander 2016
Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing Toi Derricotte 2012
A Yellow Leaf Ariana Reines 2015
Doors opening, closing on us Marge Piercy 2015
Perfect for Any Occasion Alberto Ríos 2014
It Is a Small Plant William Carlos Williams 1920
The Magi W. B. Yeats 1914
Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox Jalal al-Din Rumi 1898
Trees Need Not Walk the Earth David Rosenthal 1920
A Situation for Mrs. Biswas Prageeta Sharma 2010
way [excerpts] Leslie Scalapino 1988
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
Old Black Men Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Why Regret? Galway Kinnell 2006
Poet's Work Lorine Niedecker 2002
Letter from a Haunted Room Lisa Sewell 2006

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