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Title Author Year
“I’m afraid of death” Kathleen Ossip 2013
The Future is an Animal Tina Chang 2012
Quiet Tony Hoagland 2012
Ghost Elephants Jean Valentine 2012
Written on the Banks of the Arun Charlotte Smith 1785
Again a Solstice Jennifer Chang 2010
Again, She Tells the First Story Barbara Jane Reyes 2011
About Foam Caroline Bergvall 2011
The Dead Girls Speak in Unison Danielle Pafunda 2010
Let Me Disappear Ray Gonzalez 2009
My Aunts Meghan O’Rourke 2010
Meeting with My Father in the Orchard Homero Aridjis 2010
Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg (audio only) Richard Hugo 1969
Picking Up Evelyn Duncan 2008
Envoy Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
Essay on Criticism [But most by numbers] Alexander Pope 1711
The Aeneid, Book I [A grove stood in the city] Virgil 1907
My Life’s Calling Deborah Digges 2004
Song of the Andoumboulou: 50 Nathaniel Mackey 2006
Alice at Seventeen: Like a Blind Child Darcy Cummings 2006

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