Writing Sample

Not that I have a bunch of poems, but, well, I do.

I've dreaded this moment for a while now. In truth, it was the writing sample that kept me from applying to the appropriate grad schools in the beginning. I mean, how do you narrow down your work to 10 pages?

Anyone reading this -- what are your strategies for narrowing down?

I think I have 35 poems that are, for now, for the first round...musts.

Now. to say to 25 of them... you just didn't make the cut.

help!