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Title Author Year
Shahid Reads His Own Palm Reginald Dwayne Betts 2010
Five Easy Prayers for Pagans Philip Appleman 1998
Homosexuality Henri Cole 2007
Metropolitan Nightmare Stephen Vincent Benét 1933
The Last Slow Days of Summer Phillip Lopate 2009
The Aeneid, Book VI [First, the sky and the earth] Virgil 2006
The Painted Bed Donald Hall 2006
Achill Derek Mahon 1991
Nothing Stays Put Amy Clampitt 1997
Song Frank Bidart 2005
Dishwater Ted Kooser 2004
On the Mississippi Hamlin Garland 1893
The Two Philip Levine 2002
September Joanne Kyger 2002
[I, whom Apollo sometime visited,] Robert Louis Stevenson 1918
beside her unearthing nicole v basta 2022
LETTER VII: Remember to Breathe Margaret Rhee 2026
A Song [I was want] Jos Charles 2026
Lube, Ars Poetica Lan Lesmeister 2026
Lessons at the Legendary Institute for Yarn Spinning Rigoberto González 2026

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