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Title Author Year
Time Study Marvin Bell 2013
Papyrus Ezra Pound 1916
The Balloon of the Mind W. B. Yeats 1919
The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me Delmore Schwartz 1959
Curse of the Cat Woman Edward Field 2007
From “Mean Free Path” Ben Lerner 2010
Xicano J. Michael Martinez 2010
The Valley of Unrest Edgar Allan Poe 1831
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [Shut, shut the door] Alexander Pope 1735
Apples Grace Schulman 2007
Letter from a Haunted Room Lisa Sewell 2006
Sex with a Famous Poet Denise Duhamel 1999
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is D. H. Lawrence 1964
Lullaby of the Onion Miguel Hernández 1989
A Dozen Cocktails Please Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 2026
So Cruel Prison Henry Howard 1557
The Sonnet in Drag Chris Watkins 2025
Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Mothers Arrange Their Aches at Night Maya Abu Al-Hayyat 2022
What Comes Carolyn Forché 2020

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