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Title Author Year
Pocket Vampire Dorothy Barresi 2011
Traveling Light Linda Pastan 2011
U-District Incident Report Heather McHugh 2011
Song of the Owl Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1856
A lane of Yellow led the eye (1650) Emily Dickinson 1890
tomorrow I leave to El Paso, Texas Juan Felipe Herrera 2010
The Dead Girls Speak in Unison Danielle Pafunda 2010
Hope Wanted Alive Terese Svoboda 2010
Evolution of Danger Tina Chang 2010
Desolation of the Chimera Luis Cernuda 2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia Philip Freneau 1783
The Shark Judith Beveridge 2004
Blue or Green James Galvin 2009
A Fear of Old Age Jack Anderson 2009
In Aporia Akilah Oliver 2009
Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon] Gertrude Stein 1914
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek James Dickey 1992
Me in Paradise Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
Fifty-Three Eileen Myles 2007
My Life’s Calling Deborah Digges 2004

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