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Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox Jalal al-Din Rumi 1898
What Is an Epigram? Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1802
On Summer George Moses Horton 1837
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [I listen to songs] Tada Chimako 2010
Oread H.D. 1915
Metropolitan Nightmare Stephen Vincent Benét 1933
The National Interest Ted Mathys 2009
Psalm George Oppen 1965
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (audio only) James Wright 1964
All That’s Left Jack Hirschman 2008
Red Slippers Amy Lowell 1916
Lullabye Albert Goldbarth 2007
Dead Fires Jessie Redmon Fauset 1922
Losing Track Denise Levertov 1964
Achill Derek Mahon 1991
Haircut Elizabeth Alexander 1996
The Suitor Jane Kenyon 1996
What are the consequences of silence? Bhanu Kapil 2001
[Once a lady read my aura.] Nicole Tallman 2025
She says, being forbidden: Leonora Speyer 2026

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