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POET
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POEM TITLE
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Wesley McNair
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For My Wife
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Lucille Lang Day
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Tooth Painter
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n/a
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Not Knowing Why
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Nancyrose Houston
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The Letter From Home
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Lyn Lifshin
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The Other Fathers
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Joette Giorgis
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(Untitled)
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Christine Stewart-Nunez
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Convergence
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Tim Nolan
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At the Choral Concert
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Ben Vogt
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Grandpa Vogt’s—1959
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Trish Carpo
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Back Then
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Susie Patlove
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Poor Patriarch
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George Bilgere
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Night Flight
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Marie Sheppard Williams
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Everybody
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Kathy Mangan
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The Whistle
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Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck
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Like Coins, November
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Philip Memmer
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The Paleontologist’s Blind Date
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David Lee Garrison
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Bach in the DC Subway
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Bruce Guernsey
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Yam
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Dore Kiesselbach
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Aubade
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Cecilia Woloch
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The Pick
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David Bottoms
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My Father’s Left Hand
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Michelle Bennett
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Western
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Diane Glancy
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Indian Summer
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Thomas R. Smith
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Baby Wrens’ Voices
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Sue Ellen Thompson
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Helping My Daughter Move into Her First Apartment
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Ron Koertge
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First Grade
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Mark Vinz
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Cautionary Tales
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Cecilia Woloch
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My Mother’s Pillow
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Jane Hirshfield
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Green-Striped Melons
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Ronald Wallace
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Sustenance
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Margaret Kaufman
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Photo, Brownie Troop, St. Louis, 1949
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Jean Nordhaus
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I Was Always Leaving
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Alexandra Teague
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Language Lessons
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Coleman Barks
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Glad
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Todd Boss
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This Morning in a Morning Voice
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Joseph Stroud
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Night in Day
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Deborah Warren
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Marginalia
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Marie Howe
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Hurry
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Kevin Griffith
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Spinning
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Judy Loest
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Faith
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David Wojahn
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Walking to School, 1964
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Susan Browne
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On Our Eleventh Anniversary
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Bill Holm
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Earbud
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Regan Huff
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Occurrence on Washburn Avenue
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Anne Marie Macari
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From the Plane
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Joseph O. Legaspi
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At the Bridal Shop
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Miller Williams
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Going Deaf
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Gerald Fleming
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Long Marriage
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Sebastian Matthews
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Barbershop Quartet, East Village Grille
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Matthew Vetter
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Wild Flowers
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George Bilgere
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Corned Beef and Cabbage
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Cecilia Woloch
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Anniversary
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Charles Harper Webb
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The Animals are Leaving
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David Wagoner
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The Cherry Tree
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Don Welch
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At 14
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Chris Forhan
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What My Father Left Behind
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Anne Pierson Wiese
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Inscrutable Twist
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Zozan Hawez
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Self-Portrait
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Cornelius Eady
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A Small Moment
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Jose Angel Araguz
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Gloves
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Conrad Hilberry
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Christmas Night
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Russell Libby
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Applied Geometry
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Robert Haight
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How Is It That the Snow
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Pat Mora
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Fences
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Robert Wrigley
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Finding a Bible in an Abandoned Cabin
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Minnie Bruce Pratt
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Cutting Hair
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Gary Dop
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On Swearing
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Dick Allen
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The Accompanist
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Dan Lechay
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Ghost Villanelle
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James P. Lenfestey
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Daughter
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Robert Hedin
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The Old Liberators
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John Maloney
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After Work
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Judith Harris
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Gathering Leaves in Grade School
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Kaelum Poulson
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The Crow
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Stuart Kestenbaum
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Prayer for the Dead
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Emmett Tenorio Melendez
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My name came from. . .
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D. Nurkse
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Bushwick: Latex Flat
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Gary Dop
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Father, Child, Water
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Kristen Tracy
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Rain at the Zoo
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Frank Steele
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Sunflower
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Berwyn Moore
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Driving to Camp Lend-A-Hand
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Joelle Biele
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To Katharine: At Fourteen Months
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Patrick Phillips
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Piano
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Veronica Patterson
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Marry Me
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Ann Struthers
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Planting the Sand Cherry
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Samuel Green
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Night Dive
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Rick Campbell
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Heart
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Mary-Sherman Willis
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The Laughter of Women
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Sharmila Voorakkara
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For the Tattooed Man
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R. S. Gwynn
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Fried Beauty
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Robert Bly
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Seeing the Eclipse in Maine
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Ellen Bass
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Dead Butterfly
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Max Mendelsohn
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Ode to Marbles
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Richard Hoffman
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Summer Job
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Jonathan Holden
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Car Showroom
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Steve Orlen
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Three Teenage Girls: 1956
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Allan Peterson
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The Inevitable
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Frank Steele
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Part of a Legacy
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Judith Harris
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In Your Absence
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David Tucker
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Today’s News
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Marianne Boruch
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Hospital
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Yusef Komunyakaa
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Yellowjackets
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Trish Dugger
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Spare Parts
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Carrie Shipers
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Medical History
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Steven Huff
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Safe
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Ed Ochester
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What the Frost Casts Up
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Linda Pastan
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The Quarrel
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Lee McCarthy
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Santa Paula
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William Kloefkorn
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"I stand alone at the foot "
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Marvin Bell
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Veterans of the Seventies
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Rynn Williams
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Insomnia
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Jackson Wheeler
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How Good Fortune Surprises Us
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Steve Orlen
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In the House of the Voice of Maria Callas
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Linda Gregg
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Elegance
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Thomas R. Smith
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Trust
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Steven Schneider
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Chanukah Lights Tonight
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Bruce Guernsey
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The Lady and the Tramp
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Deborah Cummins
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At a Certain Age
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Jessy Randall
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Superhero Pregnant Woman
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Todd Davis
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Sleep
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Ruth Moose
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The Crossing
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Kathleen Flenniken
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Old Woman With Protea Flowers, Kahalui Airport
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David Baker
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Afterwards
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Peter Pereira
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The Garden Buddha
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Jean Nordhaus
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A Dandelion for My Mother
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Anne Pierson Wiese
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Columbus Park
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Betty Adcock
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Louisiana Line
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Regina DeSalva
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Snip Your Hair
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Marianne Boruch
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Nest
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Karin Gottshall
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The Raspberry Room
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Barry Goldensohn
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Subway
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Patrick Phillips
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Matinee
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Joshua Weiner
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Found Letter
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Wesley McNair
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Hymn to the Comb-Over
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Mike White
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Wind
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Kim Noriega
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Heaven, 1963
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Joseph Stanton
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Banana Trees
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Warren Woessner
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Alberto
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Nancy Botkin
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Geometry
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Roy Jacobstein
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Safari, Rift Valley
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Jeffrey Harrison
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Visitation
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Robert West
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Echo
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Freya Manfred
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Swimming With A Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle
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Elizabeth Hobbs
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Slow Dancing on the Highway:
the Trip North
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Felecia Caton Garcia
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Drought
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Juliana Gray
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Summer Downpour on Campus
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Sue Ellen Thompson
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Wallpapering
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Kay Ryan
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Houdini
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Naomi Shihab Nye
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Supple Cord
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Judith Kitchen
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Catching the Moles
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Ruth Moose
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Laundry
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Marge Saiser
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Where They Lived
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Rick Snyder
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How Are You Doing?
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Jane Whitledge
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Morel Mushrooms
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Cynthia Rylant
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Wax Lips
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Wesley McNair
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The One I Think of Now
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Sharon Chmielarz
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New Water
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Robert Wrigley
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Kissing a Horse
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Mary Jo Salter
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Somebody Else’s Baby
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Andrea Hollander Budy
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For Weeks After the Funeral
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John Haines
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Young Man
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Floyd Skloot
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Silent Music
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Tatiana Ziglar
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Common Janthina
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Linda Parsons Marion
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Home Fire
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Mark Vinz
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Driving Through
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Bill Holm
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Bread Soup: An Old Icelandic Recipe
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Sue Ellen Thompson
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No Children, No Pets
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Christopher Chambers
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My Father Holds the Door for Yoko Ono
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Tania Rochelle
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Raking
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Linda Pastan
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The Birds
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Lisel Mueller
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In November
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Connie Wanek
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Amaryllis
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Dale Ritterbusch
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Green Tea
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Jeff Vande Zande
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Clean
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Tess Gallagher
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Under Stars
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James McKean
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Elegy for an Old Boxer
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Alex Phillips
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Work Shy
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Bruce Guernsey
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Moss
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Li-Young Lee
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Early in the Morning
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Jeff Daniel Marion
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Reunion
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Lita Hooper
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Love Worn
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David Mason
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In the Mushroom Summer
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Roy Scheele
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Planting a Dogwood
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Jan Beatty
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My Father Teaches Me to Dream
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Albert Garcia
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August Morning
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Sharon Olds
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My Son the Man
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Marsha Truman Cooper
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Ironing After Midnight
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Wendell Berry
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They Sit Together on the Porch
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Catherine Barnett
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Family Reunion
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Marie Howe
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The Copper Beech
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Keith Althaus
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Homecoming
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Lola Haskins
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Grandmother Speaks of the Old Country
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David Tucker
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The Dancer
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James McKean
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Bindweed
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Leslie Monsour
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The Education of a Poet
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Julia Kasdorf
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What I Learned From My Mother
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Amy Fleury
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At Twenty-Eight
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Pat Schneider
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There Is Another Way
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Richard Newman
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Coins
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Don Welch
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At the Edge of Town
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Jo McDougall
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What We Need
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Ruth L. Schwartz
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Tangerine
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Peter Pereira
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A Pot of Red Lentils
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Connie Wanek
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Radiator
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Jim Harrison
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Marching
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Grace Bauer
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Against Lawn
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Rodney Torreson
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On A Moonstruck Gravel Road
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Walter McDonald
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Some Boys are Born to Wander
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Robert Morgan
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Holy Cussing
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Bob King
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Geology
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Anne Caston
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Sunday Brunch at the Old Country Buffet
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David Baker
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Mongrel Heart
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Lola Haskins
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To Play Pianissimo
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David Bengtson
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What Calls Us
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Diane Thiel
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Family Album
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Alberto Ríos
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A Yellow Leaf
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Nancy McCleery
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December Notes
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Leslie Monsour
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Fifteen
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Shirley Buettner
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The Wind Chimes
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Judith Slater
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In The Black Rock Tavern
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J. Lorraine Brown
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Tintype on the Pond, 1925
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Jim Daniels
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Dim
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Katy Giebenhain
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Glucose Self-Monitoring
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Kurt Brown
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Road Report
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Gloria g. Murray
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In My Mother’s House
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Naomi Shihab Nye
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Boy and Egg
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Debra Nystrom
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Cliff Swallows-Missouri Breaks
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Ron Rash
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Speckled Trout
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Angela Shaw
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Children in a Field
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Claudia Emerson
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Stable
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Rodney Torreson
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The Bethlehem Nursing Home
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Martin Walls
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Cicadas at the End of Summer
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Edwin Gladding Burrows
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Camping Out
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Jean L. Connor
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Of Some Renown
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Karin Gottshall
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The Ashes
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Jane Hirshfield
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The Woodpecker Keeps Returning
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Shirley Buettner
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Discovered
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Dan Gerber
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The Rain Poured Down
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Wendell Berry
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The Peace of Wild Things
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Lisel Mueller
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Love Like Salt
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Janet McCann
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The Woman Who Collects Noah's Arks
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Georgiana Cohen
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Old Woman in a Housecoat
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Kevin Griffith
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Turning Forty
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Andrei Guruianu
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Grandfather
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David Wagoner
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Peacock Display
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Marge Piercy
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More Than Enough
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James Doyle
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The City's Oldest Known Survivor of the Great War
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Karma Larsen
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Moonflowers
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Leonard E. Nathan
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The Potato Eaters
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Barton Sutter
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Sober Song
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David Baker
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Neighbors in October
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Ruth Stone
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Another Feeling
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Marnie Walsh
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Bessie Dreaming Bear
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Jonathan Greene
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At the Grave
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David Allen Evans
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Neighbors
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