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Title
Tempo
Key
Length
1
Next to of Course God America
E.E. Cummings
E.E. Cummings
137 bpm
A# min
00:59
2
Ballad of the Gypsy
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
99 bpm
F min
00:52
3
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Robert Frost
149 bpm
C Maj
01:03
4
America
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
63 bpm
G Maj
00:37
5
Recuerdo
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
127 bpm
F# Maj
01:26
6
Logan Heights and the World
Juan Felipe Herrera
Juan Felipe Herrera
125 bpm
E Maj
04:34
7
The Secret of My Endurance
Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
100 bpm
D min
02:16
8
The Opening of the Battle of Gettysburg
Steven Vincent Benet
Steven Vincent Benet
81 bpm
A# Maj
03:50
9
Love Recognized
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
101 bpm
A# min
01:14
10
Cities of the Red Night
William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
101 bpm
A min
02:58
11
American Haikus (Excerpt)
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
129 bpm
A# Maj
06:08
12
Lester Leaps In
Al Young
Al Young
130 bpm
C# Maj
01:07
13
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas
81 bpm
C# Maj
01:37
14
Monet Refuses the Operation
Lisel Mueller
Lisel Mueller
94 bpm
F Maj
02:28
15
The Colonel
Carolyn Forche
Carolyn Forche
81 bpm
C# Maj
02:43
16
Ode to My Shoes
Erica Jong
Erica Jong
114 bpm
C min
01:52
17
The Old Flame
Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell
90 bpm
C# Maj
01:59
18
The Children's Undercroft
Donald Revell
Donald Revell
135 bpm
G# min
01:58
19
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
Michael Harper
Michael Harper
80 bpm
F min
02:33
20
Here I Am With Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids...
David Ignatow
David Ignatow
79 bpm
C Maj
00:38
21
Uh Oh Plutonium
Anne Waldman
Anne Waldman
136 bpm
B min
03:13
22
Scars
William Stafford
William Stafford
103 bpm
F# min
00:44
23
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats
35 bpm
G Maj
01:09
24
My Sisters, O My Sisters
May Sarton
May Sarton
130 bpm
C# Maj
02:57
25
So and So Reclining On Her Couch
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
150 bpm
G# min
02:10
26
My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee
113 bpm
G# min
02:26
27
In Our Time
Muriel Rukeyser
Muriel Rukeyser
143 bpm
F# Maj
00:21
28
It Is
William Stafford
William Stafford
87 bpm
F# Maj
00:40
29
Birches
Robert Frost
Robert Frost
74 bpm
C# Maj
03:03
30
In Memory of W.B. Yeats (Part 1)
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
116 bpm
A# Maj
01:49
31
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur
111 bpm
B Maj
01:54
32
Despisals
Muriel Rukeyser
Muriel Rukeyser
60 bpm
F# Maj
01:34
33
If I Were Tickled By the Rub of Love
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas
75 bpm
G# min
03:17
34
I Am Offering You This Poem
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Jimmy Santiago Baca
104 bpm
A# min
01:21
35
We Were So Poor...
Charles Simic
Charles Simic
35 bpm
B Maj
00:30
36
Junky Relations
William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
76 bpm
G# min
01:59
37
This Is the Solution, To Be Happy With Slaughter...
David Ignatow
David Ignatow
172 bpm
G# Maj
00:19
38
Bird-Witted
Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore
81 bpm
A# Maj
02:15
39
Tia Chucha
Luis Rodriquez
Luis Rodriquez
68 bpm
A# min
01:48
40
I Killed a Fly...
David Ignatow
David Ignatow
54 bpm
D Maj
00:29
41
Portrait of the Artist As a Prematurely Old Man
Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash
59 bpm
G Maj
02:03
42
Epilogue
Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell
111 bpm
G# Maj
01:25
43
Wonder
Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds
122 bpm
C Maj
01:37
44
Prayer
Joseph Bruchac
Joseph Bruchac
84 bpm
G# Maj
00:30
45
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
132 bpm
B min
00:49
46
I Was Stolen By the Gypsies...
Charles Simic
Charles Simic
68 bpm
G Maj
00:35
47
Elegy for Jane
Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke
58 bpm
D min
01:13
48
The Song of the Old Mother
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats
119 bpm
B min
00:51
49
Sonnet for Minimalists
Mona Van Duyn
Mona Van Duyn
87 bpm
G# min
00:43
50
This Is Number 26
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Jimmy Santiago Baca
76 bpm
A# min
01:24