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Title Author Year
The Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene II [When daffodils begin to peer] William Shakespeare 1623
The Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness Anne Boyer 2011
Blowjob (Vulgar Slang) (audio only) Sharon Olds 2011
Earth Took of Earth Anonymous 1000
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon] Tada Chimako 2010
Fear of the Future John Koethe 2009
Reminiscence Stéphane Mallarmé 1994
The Love-Hat Relationship Aaron Belz 2010
Gravity and Center Henri Cole 2007
Farewell John Clare 1920
The Ghazal of What Hurt Peter Cole 2008
A Muse Reginald Shepherd 1995
The Barrier Claude McKay 1922
Mother Night James Weldon Johnson 1922
Untitled [To see this evil from its core] Philip Lamantia 2008
Lovers' Infiniteness John Donne 1633
Purgatorio, Canto X Dante Alighieri 1867
The Lower East Side of Manhattan Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
Letter [Persephone to Demeter] Rachel Zucker 2003
Couture Mark Doty 1995

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