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Title Author Year
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt] David Antin 1993
For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT dg nanouk okpik 2009
Friend Jean Valentine 2004
Shahid Reads His Own Palm Reginald Dwayne Betts 2010
Five Easy Prayers for Pagans Philip Appleman 1998
Lay Back the Darkness Edward Hirsch 2003
Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl (audio only) Allen Ginsberg 1975
Mother Night James Weldon Johnson 1922
Secret History Charles Simic 2008
To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles John Keats 1817
Thanksgiving Letter from Harry Carl Dennis 2007
Blueprint Tom Sleigh 2007
Einstein Defining Special Relativity A. Van Jordan 2007
The First Marriage Peter Meinke 1996
Love in a Life Robert Browning 1855
The Illiterate William Meredith 1997
Safe Sex Donald Hall 2006
I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run Matthea Harvey 2006
He “Digesteth Harde Yron” Marianne Moore 1961
At Melville’s Tomb Hart Crane 1933

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