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Virtual Salon

Poems and Essays:

Alice

An Old Man Listening to a Young Man Listening to Whitman

Betty’s Book

billy eckstine comes to washington, d.c.

First Freed

For Ann Darr at the Air and Space Museum

For Léon Damas

Friend

Henge

Intraducible/Untranslatable

Introduction to The Virtual Salon Issue

Job 62

Love’s Austere and Lonely Offices

Mary Timony is the Neighbor I Hate the Least

On the Bus with Rita Dove

Periplum

Peter

Prizes

Snowbound

Sonnet, for Alice

Startled

The Goldfinch

To Dr. Mary Church Terrell, Crusader

To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké

Trimming Plastic Flowers

Walt’s Notebook

What to Call Her

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