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Title Author Year
WWE Fatimah Asghar 2016
A Yellow Leaf Ariana Reines 2015
Brotherhood Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen Jane Hirshfield 2011
From “Fairies” Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2013
Hearing your words and not a word among them (Sonnet XXXVI) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
The Balloon of the Mind W. B. Yeats 1919
It Is a Small Plant William Carlos Williams 1920
Magdalen Walks Oscar Wilde 1881
Poem In Which Words Have Been Left Out Charles Jensen 2012
The Present/ Lisa Robertson 2010
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
A Table in the Wilderness Li-Young Lee 2001
Dora Diller Jack Prelutsky 1984
Age Robert Creeley 1991
This Morning Charles Simic 1994
Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays Charles Reznikoff 1976
Stein 100: A Feather Likeness of the Justice Chair Jackson Mac Low 1999
In the Land of Words Eloise Greenfield 2004
On Translation Mónica de la Torre 2002

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