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Title	Type	Date
Transcript: James Wright on the Poetic Prose of H. L. Mencken, Mark Twain, E. M. Forster, and Leo Tolstoy	Essays	Aug 2009
Finding the Phenomenal Oppen		May 2009
Hum Along: How I Took Up Guitar and Became a Poet		May 2009
By Hand: Lines for Mother's Day		May 2009
Free Verse: Theodore Roethke, "I wake to sleep"		Apr 2009
Free Verse: Miriam Sagan, "The little girls"		Apr 2009
Free Verse: Walt Whitman, "As to me I know of nothing else but miracles"		Apr 2009
Free Verse: Stanley Kunitz, "I am looking for the trail"		Apr 2009
Free Verse: W. S. Merwin, "they have carried me in their branches"		Apr 2009
Free Verse: Richard Crashaw, "shine as it will"		Apr 2009
Free Verse: David Berman, "at least I have not woken up"		Apr 2009
Free Verse: James Wright, "I have wasted my life"		Apr 2009
Free Verse: E. E. Cummings, "I carry your heart"		Apr 2009
Free Verse: Seamus Heaney, "I was all hers as we peeled potatoes"		Apr 2009
Free Verse: Louise Bogan, "Trees make a long shadow"		Apr 2009
Free Verse: Jack Gilbert, "Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew"		Apr 2009
Free Verse: Sylvia Plath, "Skin doesn't have roots"		Apr 2009
Free Verse: Elizabeth Bishop, "Caught—the bubble in the spirit-level"		Apr 2009
Free Verse: Anne Sexton, "stones of the river"		Apr 2009
Free Verse: T. S. Eliot, "This is the way the world ends"		Apr 2009

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