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Poem Title   Author
To A High School Senior
Jul. 10, 2009
 
To a Frustrated Poet
Sep. 6, 2003
Sep. 6, 2002
Sep. 6, 2004
 
To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph
Aug. 20, 2006
 
To a Friend Who Keeps Telling Me That He Has Lost His Memory
Apr. 4, 2003
 
 
To A Child Trapped in a Barbershop
Jan. 11, 1993
 
Titles of poems by Wallace Stevens
Oct. 2, 1993
 
 
Tis the Voice of the Lobster
Jun. 19, 1998
 
Tired As I Can Be
Jul. 25, 1998
 
 
Timid Family
Apr. 28, 1994
 
Time, Place, and Parenthood
Dec. 12, 2001
 
Time with You
Aug. 5, 2011
 
Time for Serenity, Anyone?
Nov. 14, 1996
 
Time Enough
Feb. 24, 2014
 
Time Does Not Bring Relief
Oct. 2, 2001
 
Time + Distance
Feb. 10, 2009
 
Timbered Choir
Aug. 5, 2000
 
Tigers of Nanzen-Ji, The
Mar. 13, 1995
 
Tiger
Feb. 3, 1996
 
 
 
Ticket
Nov. 18, 2007
 
Thus Spake the Mockingbird
Jan. 2, 2007
Aug. 20, 2008
 

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