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Aug 2, 2013
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Wonder Cabinet
by Tina Chang
I opened the silver pronged evening and translated
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Aug 1, 2013
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horse vision
by Julian T. Brolaski
clock reads 7 at all hours
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Jul 30, 2013
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Demeter in Paris
by Meghan O'Rourke
You can only miss someone when they are present to you.
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Jul 29, 2013
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it: a user’s guide
by Evie Shockley
i hear it jingling in the pockets of the innocent heirs
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Jul 27, 2013
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Atavism
by Elinor Wylie
I always was afraid of Somes's Pond:
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Jul 25, 2013
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Giraffes
by Kimiko Hahn
After skimming the Sunday Times, Dad turned to the back of the magazine
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Jul 24, 2013
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One Day
by Joseph Millar
Everything shimmers
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Jul 22, 2013
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Virgil's Hand
by Francesc Parcerisas
The battle’s slow and sinuous,
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Jul 19, 2013
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Hotel Berlin
by Cynthia Cruz
In the rooms of a run down palace
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Jul 17, 2013
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Goodnight Moon
by James Arthur
I used to be as unsentimental as anyone could be.
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Jul 16, 2013
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Inspire Hope
by Amy Lawless
I am in a common despair.
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Jul 14, 2013
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The Old Stoic
by Emily Brontë
Riches I hold in light esteem,
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Jul 10, 2013
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Loss
by Carl Adamshick
It is nice to be without answers
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Jul 9, 2013
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A blurry photograph
by Martha Ronk
The tree azalea overwhelms the evening with its scent,
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Jul 8, 2013
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Prague
by Khadijah Queen
Yes as thievery, except if saved for
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Jul 6, 2013
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Excelsior
by Walt Whitman
Who has gone farthest? for I would go farther,
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Jul 4, 2013
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América
by Richard Blanco
Although Tía Miriam boasted she discovered
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Jul 3, 2013
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Having Words
by Alfred Corn
They’d started meeting by night at the only local,
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Jul 2, 2013
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He Stood
by Aaron Shurin
He stamped his feet and opened the door, stood on the threshold, turned around.
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Jun 30, 2013
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The Banjo Player
by Fenton Johnson
There is music in me, the music of a peasant people.
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Jun 28, 2013
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Prayer
by Robert Glück
Dear Lord
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Jun 27, 2013
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Getting Close
by Victoria Redel
Because my mother loved pocketbooks
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Jun 26, 2013
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Tang
by Bruce Cohen
If I do not witness these leaves turning orange, who will?
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Jun 24, 2013
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Permanence
by Denise Duhamel
The barista at the coffee shop is covered in tattoos. She says there are only two
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Jun 23, 2013
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Flush or Faunus
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You see this dog. It was but yesterday
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Jun 22, 2013
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Summer in the South
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
The oriole sings in the greening grove
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Jun 21, 2013
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Epistle: Leaving
by Kerrin McCadden
Dear train wreck, dear terrible engines, dear spilled freight,
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Jun 20, 2013
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Evening Primrose
by Amy Greacen
Early adopter, familiar of vespertine
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Jun 19, 2013
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Pittsburgh
by James Allen Hall
I burn your Highland Park. I acid your Carnegie
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Jun 17, 2013
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Mississippi: Origins
by Anna Journey
My parents come from a place where all the houses stop
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Jun 15, 2013
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The Flight
by Sara Teasdale
Look back with longing eyes and know that I will follow,
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Jun 11, 2013
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Proximity
by Randall Mann
Out of the fog comes a little white bus.
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Jun 9, 2013
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Ennui
by Marianne Moore
He often expressed
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Jun 8, 2013
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Inland
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
People that build their houses inland,
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Jun 7, 2013
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Year of the Tiger
by Miguel Murphy
This new Chinese New Year we were in a film
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Jun 3, 2013
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Unfollowed Figment
by Lyn Hejinian
Useless lighthouse, and the bucket on the beach, the tattered begonias
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Jun 1, 2013
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Papyrus
by Ezra Pound
Spring . . . . . . .
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May 30, 2013
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Room in Antwerp
by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Dust covers the window, but light slips through—
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May 28, 2013
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Metamorphosis
by James Richardson
The week after you died, Mom,
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May 27, 2013
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Poetry
by Monica Ferrell
There is nothing beautiful here
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May 20, 2013
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After Skate
by Carol Muske-Dukes
He glides in on his single wing, after the signs go up. After
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May 19, 2013
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Song
by James Joyce
My love is in a light attire
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May 18, 2013
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Spring Song
by Sherwood Anderson
In the forest, amid old trees and wet dead leaves, a shrine
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May 16, 2013
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Wave
by David Keplinger
Lincoln, leaving Springfield, 1861,
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May 14, 2013
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Blue Hanuman
by Joan Larkin
A four-armed flutist took me
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May 13, 2013
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Field
by Erin Belieu
Field is pause field is plot field is red chigger bump where
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May 12, 2013
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To My Mother
by Christina Rossetti
To-day's your natal day
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May 10, 2013
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Time
by Chris Martin
All that happens happens
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May 9, 2013
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No Ticket
by Jonathan Wells
His clothes were filled with tickets to past events
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May 8, 2013
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Not
by Sophie Cabot Black
that you are unloved
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May 7, 2013
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After Catullus
by Matthew Rohrer
If you, Tom, could see this inflight video map
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May 6, 2013
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Mimosa
by Mary Ruefle
Pink dandruff of some tree
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May 4, 2013
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Remorse
by Carl Sandburg
The horse's name was Remorse
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May 2, 2013
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Belong To
by David Baker
See the pair of us
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Apr 29, 2013
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The Sparrow
by Gerald Stern
Here’s a common sparrow, a bit of a schnorrer
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Apr 27, 2013
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Poetry
by Alfred Kreymborg
Ladislaw the critic
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Apr 25, 2013
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A Greek Island
by Edward Hirsch
Traveling over your body I found
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