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Title Author Year
The Skin's Broken Aria Jennifer Chang 2010
Allende Phillip Lopate 2009
[Girl]  [Eyes]  [Foreigner] Caroline Crumpacker 2002
The Shark Judith Beveridge 2004
The Shark's Parlor James Dickey 1992
Coffee and Oranges Joel Brouwer 2009
Shoal of Sharks Richard O'Connell 2001
The Shark Lord Alfred Douglas 1897
In Aporia Akilah Oliver 2009
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609
There Is No Audience for Poetry Kevin Prufer 2008
Terzanelle: Manzanar Riot Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan 2008
The Fifth Dream: Bullets and Deserts and Borders Benjamin Alire Sáenz 2006
Secrets in the Sand [And the night was a precipice] Marjorie Agosín 2006
The Portrait Stanley Kunitz 1991
Thinking of Warsaw Hugh Seidman 2005
Love Opened a Mortal Wound Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1997
Monologue for an Onion Suji Kwock Kim 2003
War Photograph Kate Daniels 2002
Red Foxes [excerpt] Robert McDowell 2001

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