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Blues Alabama

By Michael S. Harper
Read By Quraysh Ali Lansana

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11/17/2011 Listen Roosters Elizabeth Bishop
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11/14/2011 Listen Working in Winter Keith Althaus
11/13/2011 Listen A Flute Overheard Marianne Burke
11/13/2011 Listen The Lid Geoff Page
11/13/2011 Listen How to Love Bats Judith Beveridge
11/12/2011 Listen A Cedary Fragrance Jane Hirshfield
11/11/2011 Listen Rumpelstiltskin Glyn Maxwell
11/10/2011 Listen Buffalo Dusk Carl Sandburg
11/08/2011 Listen You Can't Buy Shoes in a Painting Jill Osier
11/08/2011 Listen Red Moon Eclogues Mark Tredinnick
11/03/2011 Listen The Good Michelle Boisseau
11/01/2011 Listen No Soldier Story Ish Klein
10/31/2011 Listen Dyslexic Winifred Hughes
10/28/2011 Listen Race Elizabeth Alexander
10/27/2011 Listen A Regret David Trinidad
10/26/2011 Listen Robinson at Home Weldon Kees
10/25/2011 Listen The Passing Don Paterson
10/24/2011 Listen Advice to a Prophet Richard Wilbur
10/23/2011 Listen Geburt des Monicakinds Monica Ferrell
10/23/2011 Listen Monster [It's possible I misconstrued you] Brook Emery
10/22/2011 Listen The Circus ["I remember when I wrote 'The Circus'"] Kenneth Koch
10/22/2011 Listen Paralysis Peter Boyle
10/21/2011 Listen My Picture Left in Scotland Ben Jonson
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