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Title Author Year
Painters Muriel Rukeyser 2005
Snowman Gu Cheng 2005
Yellow Beak Stephen Dobyns 2005
I, Up they soar Inger Christensen 1989
The Starlings Jesper Svenbro 2003
The Blue Stairs Barbara Guest 2003
A Bedtime Story For Mr. Lamb Arthur Nevis 2003
Drum Philip Levine 1999
My Daughter's First Week Gennady Aygi 2003
View #45 Thomas Centolella 2002
Narrow Flame Linda Gregerson 2002
One A.M. [excerpt] David Young 1994
Air and Angels John Donne 1633
Part Phillis Levin 2001
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane Etheridge Knight 1986
From “Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus” Denise Levertov 2000
To me that man seems like a god in heaven (51) Gaius Valerius Catullus 1989
Shadows in the Water Thomas Traherne 1910
Adolescence II Rita Dove 1993
Buying Stock Denise Duhamel 1993

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