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Title Author Year
Cleanliness is next to godliness Nin Andrews 2010
My Life as a Subject Meghan O’Rourke 2010
Alamogordo 1945 Adriano Spatola 2008
Lettuce Abraham Cowley 1711
William James, Henry James Sarah Gridley 2010
Abraham Davenport [excerpt] John Greenleaf Whittier 1866
from Nox [gentes] Anne Carson 2010
Allende Phillip Lopate 2009
The Busy-Man's Picture Benjamin Franklin 1742
What I Disliked about the Pleistocene Era Patty Seyburn 2009
Below the Earth Keith Waldrop 2009
The Present Crisis James Russell Lowell 1845
The Past Michael Ryan 2004
Last Century Wyatt Prunty 2006
Traveling Malena Mörling 2006
Theories of Time and Space Natasha Trethewey 2006
On Becoming a Poet in the 1950s Stephen Beal 2004
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956

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