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Title Author Year
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall] Harryette Mullen 2010
Dead Horse Thomas Lux 2010
Summer in the South Paul Laurence Dunbar 1903
Spring in New Hampshire Claude McKay 1920
Lying My Head Off Cate Marvin 2007
In the Village Derek Walcott 2010
First Turn to Me ... Bernadette Mayer 1968
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt] William Cowper 1785
Olney Hymns, IX [The Contrite Heart] William Cowper 1779
World Below the Brine Walt Whitman 1891
It is the time of rain and snow Izumi Shikibu 1955
Further Notice Philip Whalen 2008
The Widening Sky Edward Hirsch 2003
Landing Under Water, I See Roots Annie Finch 2003
Exquisite Politics Denise Duhamel 1997
The Legend Garrett Hongo 1988
Post-Modernism James Galvin 1997
The Ruined Maid Thomas Hardy 1901
California Plush Frank Bidart 1973
Of Memory and Distance Russell Edson 2005

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