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359 [328] [A Bird came down the Walk - ] [N1, H] 365 [338] [I know that He exists] [N1, H] 372 [341] [After great pain, a formal feeling comes - ] [N1, H] 373 [501] [This World is not conclusion] [N1, H] 381 [326] [I cannot dance upon my Toes - ] [N1] 395 [336] [The face I carry with me - last - ] [N1] 407 [670] [One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - ] [N1, H] 409 [303] [The Soul selects her own Society - ] [H] [The Soul’s Superior instands] [H] [I send Two Sunsets [H] 411 [528] [Mine - by the Right of the White Election!] [N1] 446 [448] [This was a Poet - ] [N1, H] 448 [449] [I died for Beauty - but was scarce] [N1] 466 [657] [I dwell in Possibility - ] [N1, H] 475 [488] [Myself was formed – a Carpenter - ] [N1] 477 [315] [He fumbles at your Soul] [N1] 479 [712] [Because I could not stop for Death - ] [N1, H] 519 [441] [This is my letter to the World] [N1, H] 576 [305] [The difference between Despair] [N1] 588 [536] [The Heart asks Pleasure – first - ] [N1] 591 [465] [I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - ] [N1, H] 598 [632] [The Brain - is wider than the Sky - ] [N1] 600 [312] [Her - last Poems - ] [N1] 620 [435] [Much Madness is divinest Sense - ] [N1, H] 627 [593] [I think I was enchanted] [N1] 648 [547] [I’ve seen a Dying Eye] [N1] 656 [520] [I started Early - Took my Dog - ] [N1, H] 675 [401] [What Soft – Cherubic Creatures - ] [N1, H] 706 [640] [I cannot live without You] [N1, H] 760 [650] [Pain - has an Element of Blank - ] [N1] 764 [754] [My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - ] [N1, H] 788 [709] [Publication - is the Auction] [N1, H] 817 [822] [This Consciousness that is aware] [N1] 857 [732] [She rose to His Requirement - dropt] [N1, H] 935 [1540] [As imperceptibly as Grief] [N1] 1096 [986] [A narrow Fellow in the Grass] [N1, H] 1108 [1078] [The Bustle in a House] [N1, H] 1163 [1138] [A Spider sewed at Night] [N1] 1243 [1126] [Shall I take thee, the Poet said] [N1] 1263 [1129] [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant - ] [N1, H] 1353 [1247] [To pile like Thunder to it’s close] [N1] 1454 [1397] [It sounded as if the Streets were running] [N1] 1489 [1463] [A Route of Evanescence] [N1, H] 1577 [1545] [The Bible is an antique Volume - ] [N1, H] 1593 [1587] [He ate and drank the precious Words - ] [N1] 1665 [1581] [The farthest Thunder that I heard] [N1] 1668 [1624] [Apparently with no surprise] [N1] 1675 [1601] [Of God we ask one favor, that we may be forgiven - ] [N1] 1715 [1651] [A word made Flesh is seldom] [N1] 1773 [1732] [My life closed twice before it’s close] [N1] ----------- [It sifts form Leaden Sievers] [H]
Letters [N1, H] To Abiah Root (January 29, 1850) [H]
Letter Exchange with Susan Gilbert [N1, H] April 1852 [H] June 27, 1852 [H] about 1870 [H] About 1878 [H] Early October 1883 [H] About 1884 [H] To Samuel Bowles (about February 1861) [H]
Letters to T. W. Higginson [N1, H] April 15, 1862 [N1, H] April 25, 1862 [N1, H] June 7, 1862 [H] July 1862 [H] 1876 [H] To Otis P. Lord [rough draft] (about 1878) [H] To Mrs. J. G. Holland (early May 1866) [H] Dickinson on Poem 124 [216] [N1] REBECCA HARDING DAVIS (1831–1910) [N1, H] Life in the Iron-Mills HENRY C. WORK (1832-1884) [Brown: political minstrel song] Wake Nicodemus Kingdom Coming Babylon is Fallen LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832–1888) [N1, H] My Contraband [N1, H] From Little Women [N1] MARÍA AMPARO RUIZ DE BURTON (1832–1895) [N1, H] The Squatter and the Don Chapter V. The Don in His Broad Acres
Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog [H] The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County [N1 Roughing It [N1, H] Chapter 23 [N1] Chapter 48 [H] Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [N1, H] Notice and Explanatory [H] From Pudd’nhead Wilson A True Story [H] The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg [H] The Autobiography of Mark Twain [H] Chapter 4 As Regards Patriotism Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences [N1] The War Prayer [N1, H] Letters from the Earth [N1] Satan’s Letter Letter II Letter IV Letter VI Letter to the Earth Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921) [H] Circumstance BRET HARTE (1836–1902) [N1] The Luck of Roaring Camp Miggles Tennessee’s Partner Sarah M. B. Piatt (1836-1894) [H] Giving Back the Flower Shapes of a Soul The Palace-Burner We Two His Mother's Way CHARLOTTE FORTEN GRIMKÉ (1837–1914) [N2] A Parting Hymn Journals
“The Pilot’s Story” (poem) from An Imperative Duty (novel) Editha [N1, H] from Criticism and Fiction [H] Editor's Easy Chair [H] from The Editor’s Study [H] Letters to the Editor of the New York Tribune [H] Mary E. Wilkin’s Short Stories [H] Paul Laurence Dunbar [H] Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt’s Stories [H]
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres [H] Chapter VI. The Virgin of Chartres The Education of Henry Adams [N1, H] Editor’s Preface [N1] Preface [N1] Chapter XXV. The Dynamo and the Virgin [N1, H]
From A Fool’s Errand From Bricks without Straw (chapter on ex-slaves’ naming) Brief in Plessy v. Ferguson Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) [H] Miss Grief AMBROSE BIERCE (1842–1914?) [N1, H] An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge [N1] Chickamauga [N1, H] Native American Oratory [N1] Smohalla: Comments to Major MacMurray [N1] Charlot: [He has filled graves with our bones] [N1] HENRY JAMES (1843–1916) [N1, H] Daisy Miller: A Study [N1] The Art Fiction [N1, H] The Jolly Corner [H] The Real Thing [N1] The Beast in the Jungle [N1] George Washington Cable (1844-1925) [H] 'Tite Poulette from The Grandissimes from The Freedman’s Case in Equity “Attalie Brouillard” (from Strange True Stories of Louisiana) Letters to Charles W. Chesnutt SARAH WINNEMUCCA (c. 1844–1891) [N1, H] Life Among the Piutes [N1, H] From Chapter I. First Meeting of Piutes and Whites [N1, H] From Chapter II. Domestic and Social Moralities [N1] From Chapter VIII. The Yakima Affair [N1] JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (1848–1908) [N1, H] from Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings [N1, H] Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox from Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches [H] -----------Free Joe and the Rest of the World EMMA LAZARUS (1849–1887) [N1] In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport 1492
The New Colossus SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849–1909) [N1, H] A White Heron [N1, H] Martha’s Lady [H] The Foreigner [N1] Valentine McGillycuddy (1849) [N1] From McGillycuddy’s Statement KATE CHOPIN (1850–1904) [N1, H] Desiree’s Baby [N1, H] The Story of an Hour [N1] The Storm [N1]
The Western Association of Writers [H] Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) [H] Goddess of Liberty, Answer ALBERY ALLSON WHITMAN (1851-1902) Tobe’s Dream [Sterling Brown: best dialect poem before Dunbar] MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852–1930) [N1, H] A New England Nun [N1, H] The Revolt of “Mother” [N1, H] Love and the Witches [H] Grace King (1852-1932) [H] The Little Convent Girl José Martí (1853-1895) [N1, H] Our America IRWIN RUSSELL (1853-1879) Christmas-Night in the Quarters THOMAS NELSON PAGE (1853-1922) “Marse Chan” From: In Ole Virginia; or, Marse Chan and Other Stories BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (1856–1915) [N1, N2, H] Up from Slavery [N1, N2, H] Chapter I. A Slave among Slaves [N1, N2, H] Chapter II. Boyhood Days [N1, N2] Chapter III. The Struggle for an Education [N1, H] Chapter VI. Black Race and Red Race [H] Chapter XIII. Two Thousand Miles for a Five-Minute Speech [H] Chapter XIV. The Atlanta Exposition Address [N1, N2, H] Alice Brown (1857-1948) [H] Review of Sarah Orne Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs CHARLES W. CHESNUTT (1858–1932) [N1, N2, H] What Is a White Man? [H] The Goophered Grapevine [N1, N2, H] Dave’s Neckliss Mars Jeems Nightmare The Wife of His Youth [N1, N2, H] Her Virginia Mammy The Passing of Grandison [N1, N2, H] The Sheriff’s Children The Doll
A Defamer of His Race [N2] What is a White Man From The Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt [N2, H] One novel (The Marrow of Tradition) ANNA JULIA COOPER (1858?–1964) [N2] Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux) (1858-1939) [N1, H] from The Soul of the Indian [H] ----------- Chapter I, The Great Mystery [H] from From the Deep Woods to Civilization [N1, H] ----------- Chapter VII, The Ghost Dance War [H] PAULINE HOPKINS (1859–1930) [N1, N2, H] Preface for Contending Forces [H] Talma Gordon [N2] Famous Men of the Negro Race [N2] Booker T. Washington Famous Women of the Negro Race [N2] V. Literary Workers (Concluded) Letter from Cordelia A. Condict and Pauline Hopkin’s Reply (March 1903) [N2] A Dash for Liberty [N1]
Chapter XIV, Luke Sawyer Speaks to the League HAMLIN GARLAND (1860–1940) [N1, H] Under the Lion’s Paw [N1] Up the Coulé: A Story of Wisconsin [H]
The Imported Bridegroom [N1] from Yekl [H] Chapter 4, The Meeting -----------Chapter 9, The Parting -----------Chapter 10, A Defeated Victor CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860–1935) [N1, H] The Yellow Wall-paper [N1, H] Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wall-paper”? [N1] Turned [H] To the Indifferent Women [N1] She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping Turned [N1] E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (1861-1913) [H] The Camper The Corn Husker The Indian Corn Planter EDITH WHARTON (1862–1937) [N1, H] The Other Two [N1, H] Roman Fever [N1, H] The Valley of Childish Things [H] Souls Belated [H] The Life Apart (L'âme close) [H] The Eyes [H] IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT (1862–1931) [N1, N2] From Mob Rule in New Orleans [N1] A Red Record [N2] Chapter I. The Case Stated Chapter X. The Remedy Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863-1953) [H] The Wood-Chopper to His Ax The Cross and the Pagan BLACK ELK (1863–1950) and JOHN G. NEIHARDT (1881–1973) [N1] Black Elk Speaks III. The Great Vision
Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian [H] Mrs. Spring Fragrance [N1, H] In the Land of the Free [H] Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) [H] The Wanderers The Popularity of Firemen The Piano in the Parlor Immigration JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL (1867-1896) [Sterling Brown] De Cunjah Man When Ol’ Sis Judy Pray [gets something of the hard realism missing in Dunbar]
The Land of Little Rain [N1] The Scavengers [N1]
Trainor, the Druggist [N1] Margaret Fuller Slack [N1] Abel Melveny [N1] Lucinda Matlock [N]
A Litany of Atlanta [N2] The Riddle of the Sphinx [Brown] The Song of the Smoke [N2, H] The Souls of Black Folk [N1, N2, H] The Forethought [N1, N2] I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings [N1, N2, H] III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others [N1, N2, H] IV. Of the Meaning of Progress [N2] V. Of the Wings of Atalanta [N2] VI. Of the Training of Black Men [N2] X. Of the Faith of the Fathers [N2] XI. Of the Passing of the First-Born [N2] XII. Of Alexander Crummell [N2] XIII. Of the Coming of John [N2] XIV. The Sorrow Songs [N2, H] The After-Thought [N2] The Damnation of Women [N2] Criteria of Negro Art [N2] Two Novels [N2] JAMES D. CORROTHERS (1869–1917) [N2] The Snapping of the Bow Me ’n’ Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar At the Closed Gate of Justice An Indignation Dinner EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869–1935) [N1, H] The Clerks [H] Aunt Imogen [H] Momus [H] Eros Turannos [H] The Tree in Pamela’s Garden [H] Luke Havergal [N1] Richard Cory [N1] Miniver Cheevy [N1] Mr. Flood’s Party [N1, H] Toussaint L’Ouverture [Brown]
Fantaisie Printanière Zola as a Romantic Writer A Plea for Romantic Fiction From The Octopus (opening perhaps?)
Sister Carrie [N1] Chapter I Chapter III The Second Choice [H] True Art Speaks Plainly [N1] STEPHEN CRANE (1871–1900) [N1, H] A Mystery of Heroism [H] Maggie: A Girl of the Streets [N1] The Open Boat [N1, H] The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky [H] The Black Riders [N1, H] VI [N1] XXIV [N1] God Lay Dead in Heaven [H] From War Is Kind [N1, H] ----------- Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind [H] ----------- The Impact of a Dollar upon the Heart [H] ----------- A Man Said to the Universe [H] ----------- A Newspaper Is a Collection of Half-Injustices [H] ----------- There Was a Man with Tongue of Wood [H] from Uncollected Poems [H] ----------- Chant You Loud of Punishments JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871–1938) [N1, N2, H] Sence You Went Away [N2, Brown: JWJ later attacked poem for triteness] Lift Every Voice and Sing [N1, N2, H] O Black and Unknown Bards [N2, H] Fifty Years [N2] Brothers [N2, Brown] The Black Mammy [Brown] The Creation [N2, H] My City [N2] Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man [N1, N2, H] Chapter X [N1, H] The Book of American Negro Poetry [N2] Preface
Stone Face JOHN WESLEY WORK (1871-1925) From Folk Songs of the American Negro (1915) [Sterling Brown] PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872–1906) [N1, N2, H] Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker [H] Ode to Ethiopia [N2] Worn Out [N2] A Negro Love Song [N2] The Colored Soldiers [N2] An Ante-Bellum Sermon [N2] Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes [N2] Not They Who Soar [N2] When Malindy Sings [N1, N2, H] An Ante-Bellum Sermon [N1, H] We Wear the Mask [N1, N2, H] Little Brown Baby [N2] Her Thought and His [N2] A Cabin Tale [N2] Sympathy [N1, N2, H] Dinah Kneading Dough [N2] The Haunted Oak [N2] Harriet Beecher Stowe [N1] Douglass [N2] (*not sure if “Douglass” and “Frederick Douglass” are the same poem.) Frederick Douglass [N1, H] Philosophy [N2] Black Samson of Brandywine [N2] The Poet [N2] The Fourth of July and Race Outrages [N2]
The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist Chapter XIX. The Fugitives Flee Again Chapter XX. The Blaze W.C. HANDY (1873-1958) St. Louis Blues WILLA CATHER (1873–1947) [N1, H] My Ántonia [N1] *The Sculptor’s Funeral [N1] A Wagner Matinée [H]
The Professional Instinct Alexander Lawrence Posey (1873-1908) [H] Ode to Sequoyah Hotgun on the Death of Yadeka Harjo Fus Fixico's Letter Number 44 AMY LOWELL (1874–1925) [N1, H] The Captured Goddess [N1] Venus Transiens [N1, H] Madonna of the Evening Flowers [N1, H] September, 1918 [N1] St. Louis [N1] New Heavens for Old [N1] A Lady [H] Patterns [H] The Letter [H] Summer Rain [H] Opal [H] Wakefulness [H] Grotesque [H] The Sisters [H] GERTRUDE STEIN (1874–1946) [N1, H] The Making of Americans [N1, H] [Introduction] Melanctha (1909) Tender Buttons [N1] Objects [N1] Susie Asado [H] Preciosilla [H] Ladies' Voices [H] from Composition as Explanation [H] from The Geographical History of America or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind [H] from The Mother of Us All [H] from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas [N1] ARTHUR A. SCHOMBURG (1874–1938) [N2] The Negro Digs Up His Past RIDGELY TORRENCE (1874-1950) [Brown] Blackbird [Brown; one of the most memorable poems] JOHN M. OSKISON (1874–1947) [N1, H] The Problem of Old Harjo ROBERT FROST (1874–1963) [N1, H] The Pasture [N1, H] Mowing [N1] Mending Wall The Death of the Hired Man [N1] Home Burial [N1] After Apple-Picking [N1] The Wood-Pile [N1] The Road Not Taken [N1, H] An Old Man’s Winter Night [H] The Oven Bird [N1, H] Birches [N1] “Out, Out—” [N1, H] The Line-Gang [N1, H] The Ax-Helve [N1, H] Fire and Ice [N1] Nothing Gold Can Stay [N1] Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening [N1, H] Desert Places [N1, H] Once by the Pacific [H] Design [N1, H] Neither Out Far Nor In Deep [N1] Provide, Provide [N1, H] The Gift Outright [N1] Directive [N1, H] The Figure a Poem Makes [N1] J. MORD [Junius Mordecai] ALLEN (1875-??) [Sterling Brown, Jean Wagner] From Rhymes, Tales, and Rhymed Tales (1906) The Devil and Sis Viney [Brown] When the Fish Begin to Bite [Brown] Shine On, Mr. Sun [Brown] The Squeak of the Fiddle [Wagner] Eureka [Wagner] His Race’s Benefactor [Wagner] ALICE MOORE DUNBAR NELSON (1875–1935) [N2, H] Violets [N2] I Sit and Sew [N2, H] You! Inez! [H] The Proletariat Speaks [H] April Is on the Way [N2] Violets [N2] Sista Josepha [H] Onoto Watanna (Winifred Eaton) (1875-1954) [H] Ghost Dance Song [H] Ghost Dance Songs JACK LONDON (1876–1916) [N1, H] The Law of Life [N1] To Build a Fire [N1] The Mexican [N1] The House of Pride [N1] South of the Slot [H] From What Life Means to Me [N1] WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD (1876-1944) [Brown] The Lynching Bee [Brown: fierce attack upon mob violence] ZITKALA SÂ (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876–1938) [N1, H] Impressions of an Indian Childhood [N1] I. My Mother II. The Legends IV. The Coffee-Making VII. The Big Red Apples The School Days of an Indian Girl [N1, H] I. The Land of Red Apples [N1, H] II. The Cutting of My Long Hair [N1, H] III. The Snow Episode [H] V. Iron Routine [N1] VI. Four Strange Summers [N1, H] VII. Incurring My Mother’s Displeasure [N1, H] An Indian Teacher among Indians [N1] I. My First Day III. My Mother’s Curse upon White Settlers IV. Retrospection The Soft-Hearted Sioux [N1] Why I Am a Pagan [N1, H]
Behold the Lillies SUSAN GLASPELL (1876–1948) [N1, H] Trifles
Winesburg, Ohio [N1] Hands [N1, H] Death in the Woods [H] Mother [N1] Adventure [N1]
The Watchers The House of Falling Leaves Sic Vita
Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves Quiet Has a Hidden Sound UPTON SINCLAIR (1878–1968) [N1, H] The Jungle [N1, H] Chapter 2 [H] Chapter 9 [N1, H] Chapter 11 [H] Chapter 12 [H] Chapter 14 [H]
Algonquin Spirit Moki’s Song
From The American Songbag [Brown] Chicago Fog
Cool Tombs Grass
Singing Nigger: Your bony head, Jazbo, O dock walloper [Brown] VACHEL LINDSAY (1879-1931) [Brown] The Congo [Brown] Simon Legree [Brown] John Brown [Brown] Poems about cinema [WS]
The Snow Man [N1, H] A High-Toned Old Christian Woman [N1, H] The Emperor of Ice-Cream [N1] Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock [N1] Sunday Morning [N1, H] Anecdote of the Jar [N1, H] Peter Quince at the Clavier [N1, H] Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird [N1] The Idea of Order at Key West [N1] Of Modern Poetry [N1, H] Of Mere Being [H] The Plain Sense of Things [N1] The Course of a Particular [H] ANGELINA WELD GRIMKÉ (1880–1958) [N2] A Winter Twilight The Black Finger When the Green Lies over the Earth Tenebris
The Sahara of the Bozarts Other selections
From Nigger Heaven (1926) [chapters w/ Hughes’ poetry, discussion of Chesnutt story] “The Blues,” Vanity Fair (August 1925) [Sterling Brown] Portfolio of photographs Mary Antin (1881-1949) [H] from The Promised Land ----------- from Chapter IX Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941) [H] Death at Bearwallow Anzia Yezierska (1881?-1970) [H] America and I ANNE SPENCER (1882–1975) [N2, H] Before the Feast of Shushan [N2] Dunbar [N2] At the Carnival [N2] The Wife-Woman [N2] Lines to a Nasturtium [H] Substitution [H] For Jim, Easter Eve [H] MINA LOY (1882–1966) [N1] Parturition Brancusi’s Golden Bird Lunar Baedeker Feminist Manifesto
Danse Russe [H] The Young Housewife [N1, H] Portrait of a Lady [N1, H] Queen-Anne’s-Lace [N1] The Widow’s Lament in Springtime [N1] Spring and All [N1, H] The Pot of Flowers [H] The Rose [H] To Elsie [N1, H] The Red Wheelbarrow [N1, H] Young Sycamore [H] The Flower [H] The Poor [H] The Dead Baby [N1] This Is Just to Say [N1] A Sort of a Song [N1] The Dance (“In Brueghel’s great picture, The Kermess”) [N1] Burning the Christmas Greens [N1, H] Landscape with the Fall of Icarus [N1, H] The Descent [H] The Pink Locust [H] The Great Figure [H]
Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral [N2] Home Chapter I [Black Philadelphia] Chapter II [Sundays] From There is Confusion [N1] SINCLAIR LEWIS (1885-1951) From Kingsblood Royal and another selection EZRA POUND (1885–1972) [N1, H] To Whistler, American [N1] Portrait d’une Femme [N1] A Virginal [N1, H] A Pact [N1, H] In a Station of the Metro [N1, H] L’art 1910 [H] A Retrospect [N1, H] The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter [N1] Villanelle: The Psychological Hour [N1] Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts) [N1, H] -E.P. Ode pour L'electionde Son Sepulchre ----------- Yeux Glauques ----------- Siena mi fe'; Disfecemi Maremma ----------- Brennbaum ----------- Mr. Nixon ----------- Envoi (1919) The Cantos [N1, H] I (“And then went down to the ship”) [N1, H] XIII (“Kung walked”) [H] XVII (“So that the vines burst from my fingers”) [N1] XLV (“With Usura”) [N1, H] LXXXI [Yet/Ere the season died a-cold] [H]
Harlem [Brown] Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) [H] Trans-National America ALAIN LOCKE (1886–1954) [N2, H] The New Negro GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON (1886–1966) [N2] The Heart of a Woman Youth Lost Illusions I Want to Die While You Love Me H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886–1961) [N1, H] Sea Rose [H] The Helmsman [H] Mid-day [N1] Oread [N1, H] Leda [N1] Fragment 113 [N1] Helen [N1, H] From The Walls Do Not Fall [43] [N1] From Tribute to the Anges [8, 12, 19, 20, 23, 43] [H] Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) [H] Credo
The Purse-Seine Self-Criticism in February The Bloody Sire The Excesses of God Cassandra The Beauty of Things Carmel Point MARIANNE MOORE (1887–1972) [N1, H] England [H] To a Chameleon [H] An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish [H] The Pangolin [H] Poetry [N1, H] To a Snail [N1] What Are Years? [N1, H] Nevertheless [H] The Paper Nautilus [N1] The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing [N1, H] In Distrust of Merits [N1] MARCUS GARVEY (1887–1940) [N2] Africa for the Africans The Future as I See It
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [N1, H] Preludes [H] Sweeney among the Nightingales [N1, H] From Tradition and the Individual Talent [N1, H] Gerontion [N1] The Waste Land [N1, H] The Hollow Men [N1] Journey of the Magi [N1] Four Quartets [N1] Burnt Norton [N1] The Dry Salvages [N1, H] Mourning Dove (Okanogan) (1888-1936) [H] from Coyote Stories ----------- Preface ----------- The Spirit Chief Names the Animal People FENTON JOHNSON (1888–1958) [N2] Singing Hallelujah Song of the Whirlwind The Lonely Mother Tired
The Scarlet Woman EUGENE O’NEILL (1888–1953) [N1, H] The Emperor Jones (1920) All God’s Chillun Got Wings (1924) Long Day’s Journey into Night [N1] The Hairy Ape [H]
Here Lies a Lady Philomela Piazza Piece The Equilibrists WALDO FRANK (1889-1967) From Our America (1919, manifesto) From Holiday (novel, 1923) Letters to Jean Toomer FANNIE HURST (1889-1968) From Imitation of Life (1933) Memoir of Zora Neale Hurston
The Harlem Dancer [N1, H] Harlem Shadows [N1, N2, H] I Shall Return [H] The Lynching [N1, H] If We Must Die [N1, N2, H] Africa [N1, N2] America [N1, N2, H] In Bondage [H] Flame-Heart [H] Flower of Love [H] The Red Flower [H] My Mother [N2] Enslaved [N2] The White House [N2] Outcast [N2] St. Isaac’s Church, Petrograd [N2] Home to Harlem [N2] Chapter XVII. He Also Loved Harlem Runs Wild [N2] KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890–1980) [N1, H] Flowering Judas [N1, H] Pale Horse, Pale Rider [N1] The Jilting of Granny Weatherall [H] ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891–1960) [N1, N2, H] The Back Room Sweat [N2, H] Spunk
The Gilded Six-Bits [N1, N2, H] How It Feels to Be Colored Me [N1, N2] Characteristics of Negro Expression [N2] Sermon from Jonah’s Gourd Vine Mules and Men [N2] [Negro Folklore] Their Eyes Were Watching God [N2] Chapter 1 [The Return] Chapter 2 [Pear Tree] Dust Tracks on a Road [N2] Chapter X. Research NELLA LARSEN (1891?–1964) [N1, N2, H] Quicksand [N1, N2] from Passing [H] One Two
An old Negro Asleep The Cotton Pickers Jazz Kaleidoscope [Brown] Gray Rivers [Brown finds it a striking militant poem] Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) [H] Smoke
Spring [H] The Spring and the Fall [H] [Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare] [H] Dirge Without Music [H] [Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink] [H] The Return [H] [Here lies, and none to mourn him but the sea] [H] [His stalk the dark delphinium] [H] Sonnet xli [H] Sonnet xcv [H] Justice Denied in Massachusetts [H] Recuerdo [N1] I Think I Should Have Loved You [N1] Presently [N1] [I, being born a woman] [N1] Apostrophe to Man [N1] I Too beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex [N1] I Forgot for a Moment [N1] Michael Gold (1893-1967) [H] from Jews Without Money ---------- The Soul of a Landlord [excerpt with friend nicknamed “nigger”] Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948) [H] Up State-Depression Summer To the Negro People Ode in Time of Crisis To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade E. E. CUMMINGS (1894–1962) [N1, H] Thy fingers make early flowers of [N1] in Just- [N1] O sweet spontaneous [N1 Buffalo Bill’s [N1, H] into the strenuous briefness [H] the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls [N1, H] i like my body when it is with you [H] my sweet old etcetera [H] since feeling is first [H] “next to of course god america i [N1] i sing of Olaf glad and big [N1, H] Picasso [H] anyone lived in a pretty how town [N1, H] plato told [H] what if a much of a which of a wind [H] pity this busy monster, manunkind [N1, H] somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond [N1] my father moved through dooms of love [N1] From The Enormous Room [N1] Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) [H] After Rain [Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies] Children [How shall we mourn you who are killed and wasted] Aphrodite Vrania [The shoemaker sat in the cellars dusk beside his bench] Hellenist [In steel clouds] [About an excavation] The English in Virginia, April 1607 from Testimony ----------- I ----------- II JEAN TOOMER (1894–1967) [N1, N2, H] Cane [N1, N2, H] the entire text Karintha [N2, H] Reapers [N2] November Cotton Flower [N2] Becky [N2] Face [N2] Cotton Song [N2] Carma [N2] Song of the Son [N2, H] Georgia Dusk [N1, N2] Fern [N1, N2] Nullo [N2] Evening Song [N2] Esther [N2] Conversion [N2] Portrait in Georgia [N1, N2] Seventh Street [N1, N2] Blood-Burning Moon [N1, N2, H] Rhobert [N2] Avey [N2] Beehive [N2] Storm Ending [N2] Theater [N2] Her Lips Are Copper Wire [N2] Calling Jesus [N2] Box Seat [N2, H] Prayer [N2] Harvest Song [N2] Bona and Paul [N2] Seventh Streeth [H] John Joseph Mathews (Osage) (1894-1979) [H] from Sundown ----------- I ----------- II GEORGE SAMUEL SCHUYLER (1895–1977) [N2, H] The Negro-Art Hokum [N1, H] Our Greatest Gift to America [H]
Winter Dreams [N1] Babylon Revisited [N1] May Day [H] The Diamond as Big as the Ritz [H] JOHN DOS PASSOS (1896–1970) [N1, H] U.S.A. [N1, H] The Body of an America [H] The Bitter Drink [H] The Big Money [N1] Newsreel LXVIII [N1] The Camera Eye (51) [N1]
Women
Roman Fountain After the Persian The Dragonfly Night RUDOLPH FISHER (1897–1934) [N2] The City of Refuge The Caucasian Storms Harlem WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897–1962) [N1, H] One full novel: The Sound and the Fury or Light in August or Absalom, Absalom! or Go Down Moses As I Lay Dying [N1] Barn Burning [N1] *A Rose for Emily [N1] A Courtship [H] Delta Autumn [H] Barn Burning [H] Nobel Prize acceptance speech Letters about desegregation
From Strange Fruit (1944) “When I Was a Child” (from Killers of the Dream)
From John Brown’s Body [Brown: section on Jubilee; and “"O, black-skinned epic, epic with the long black spear, I cannot sing you now, having too white a heart." These lines inspired Robert Hayden] MARITA BONNER (1899–1971) [N2] On Being Young—a Woman—and Colored The Purple Flower (play)
Black Tambourine [H] Chaplinesque [N1, H] At Melville’s Tomb [N1, H] The Bridge [N1, H] To Brooklyn Bridge [N1, H] The River [H]
VII. The Tunnel [N1] The Broken Tower [H]
The Snows of Kilimanjaro [N1] Hills Like White Elephants [H] Letter of August 18, 1918, to His Parents [N1] MEZZ MEZZROW (1899-1972) From Really the Blues (Hip dictionary) Allen Tate (1899-1979) [H] Ode to the Confederate Dead MARGARET MITCHELL (1900-1949) From Gone with the Wind THOMAS WOLFE (1900–1938) [N1] The Lost Boy Meridel LeSueur (1900-1996) [H] Women on the Breadlines MELVIN B. TOLSON (1900?–1966) [N2] An Ex-Judge at the Bar Dark Symphony Rendezvous with America A Legend of Versailles
The Birth of John Henry Satchmo
Mister Samuel and Sam [N1] He Was a Man [N1] Master and Man [N1] Break of Day [N1] Bitter Fruit of the Tree [N1] Odyssey of Big Boy [N2] Long Gone [N2] Southern Road [N2] Strong Men [N2, H] Memphis Blues [N2] Slim Greer [N2] Tin Roof Blues [N2] Ma Rainey [N2, H] Slim in Hell [D] Remembering Nat Turner [H] Song of Triumph [H] Cabaret [N2] Sporting Beasley [N2] Sam Smiley [N2] Old Lem [N2] When de Saints Go Ma’ching Home [H] GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT (1902–1981) [N2, H] Heritage [N2, H] To Usward [H] To a Dark Girl [N2] Sonnet—2 [N2] Hatred [N2] Advice [H] Lines Written at the Grave of Alexandre Dumas [H] Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961) [H] 1933
Dirge WALLACE THURMAN (1902–1934) [N2] Infants of the Spring Chapter XXI [Harlem Salon] ARNA BONTEMPS (1902–1973) [N2] A Black Man Talks of Reaping Nocturne at Bethesda Southern Mansion Miracles From Black Thunder
The Negro Speaks of Rivers [N1, N2, H] Mother to Son [N1, N2] Danse Africaine [N2] Jazzonia [N2] When Sue Wears Red [N2] Dream Variations [N2, H] Thank You, M’am [H] Drum [H] Freedom Train [H] I, Too [N1, N2, H] Negro [H] The Weary Blues [N1, N2, H] Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret [N2] Homesick Blues [N2] Po’ Boy Blues [N2] Mulatto [N1, N2] Red Silk Stockings [N2] Song for a Dark Girl [N1, N2] Gal’s Cry for a Dying Lover [N2] Dear Lovely Death [N2] Afro-American Fragment [N2] Negro Servant [N2] Christ in Alabama [N2] Letter to the Academy [N2] Bad Luck Card [H] Ballad of the Landlord [N2] Merry-Go-Round [N2] Madam an the Rent Man [N2] Trumpet Player [N2] Madam and the Phone Bill [N2] Song for Billie Holiday [N2] Juke Box Love Song [N2] Dream Boogie [N2] Harlem [N2, H] Motto [N2] Not What Was [N2] The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain [N1, N2, H] The Blues I’m Playing [N2] Genius Child [N1] Visitors to the Black Belt [N1] Note on Commercial Theatre [N1] Big Meeting [H] The Same [H] Vagabonds [N1] Words Like Freedom [N1] Madam and Her Madam [N1] Freedom [1] [N1] Madam’s Calling Cards [N1] Silhouette [N1] Theme for English B [N1, N2] Goodbye Christ [H] Air Raid over Harlem [H] Johannesburg Mines [H] The English [H] Radioactive Red Caps [H] The Big Sea [N2, H] When the Negro Was in Vogue [N2, H] Harlem Literati [N2] Downtown [N2] The Sweet Flypaper of Life [with Roy DeCarava photographs] Essay on Pudd’nhead Wilson ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER (1902-1991) JOHN STEINBECK (1902–1968) [N1, H] The Leader of the People [N1] The Chrysanthemums [H] from The Grapes of Wrath [H] ----------- Chapter One ----------- Chapter Five Kay Boyle (1903-1993) [H] A Communication to Nancy Cunard Home (story about a Black GI who is nice to a German kid)
Yet Do I Marvel [N1, N2 H] Pagan Prayer [H] Tableau [N2] Incident [N1, N2, H] From the Dark Tower [H] Simon the Cyrenian Speaks [H] Saturday’s Child [N2] The Shroud of Color [N2] Heritage [N1, N2, H] Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song [H] To John Keats, Poet, at Spring Time [N2] From the Dark Tower [N1, N2] Uncle Jim [N1] Younghill Kang (1903-1972) [H] from East Goes West ----------- Part One, Book Three D'Arcy McNickle (1904-1977)[H] Hard Riding Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) [H] from Scoundrel Time STANLEY KUNITZ (1905–2006) [N1] Father and Son After the Last Dynasty Quinnapoxet The Wellfleet Whale
From Barrio Boy ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905–1989) [N1, H] Bearded Oaks [N1] Audubon [N1] I. Was Not the Lost Dauphin VI. Love and Knowledge VII. Tell Me a Story American Portrait: Old Style [N1] Mortal Limit [N1] Founding Fathers, Early-Nineteenth-Century Style, Southeast U.S.A. [H]
From Band of Angels From Desegregation: The Inner Conflict of the South
No Images Hard Time Blues [three poems by an unfortunately forgotten black poet]
Papermill Clifford Odets (1906-1963) [H] Waiting for Lefty Saunders Redding (1906-1988) [H] from No Day of Triumph ----------- Chapter One, Troubled in Mind HELENE JOHNSON (1907–1995) [N2] Poem
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem Remember Not Invocation
The Living Is Easy Part One Chapter 1 [Cleo] Chapter 2 [Cleo’s High Jinks] Chapter 3 [Cleo Goes North] RICHARD WRIGHT (1908–1960) [N1, N2, H] The Man Who Was Almost a Man [N1] Blueprint for Negro Writing [N2] The Ethics of Living Jim Crow, an Autobiographical Sketch [N2] Long Black Song [N2] The Man Who Lived Underground [N2] Bright and Morning Star [H]
From Native Son Black Boy [N2] Chapter XIII [Booklist] Chapter XVI [Chicago] From White Man Listen! Haikus
The Happiest Man on Earth THEODORE ROETHKE (1908–1963) [N1, H] Cuttings [N1] Cuttings (later) [N1] Root Cellar [N1, H] Big Wind [N1, H] Weed Puller [N1] Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze [N1, H] Child on Top of a Greenhouse [N1] My Papa’s Waltz [N1] Dolor [N1] Night Crow [N1] The Lost Son [N1, H] The Flight [H] The Return [H] It was beginning winter [H] The Waking [N1] Elegy for Jane [N1] I Knew a Woman [N1] Wish for a Young Wife [N1] In a Dark Time [N1] Elegy [H] My Papa’s Waltz [H] CHESTER B. HIMES (1909–1984) [N2] To What Red Hell From Cotton Comes to Harlem From The Quality of Hurt Edwin Rolfe (1909-1954) [H] Asbestos
First Love Elegia EUDORA WELTY (1909–2001) [N1, H] Petrified Man [N1] The Wide Net [H]
The Maximus Poems [N1, H] I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You [N1, H] Maximus, to Himself [N1, H] [When do poppies bloom] [N1] Celestial Evening, October 1967 [N1] The Kingfishers [H] For Sappho, Back [H] From Projective Verse [N1] PIETRO di DONATO (1911–1992) [N1, H] Christ in Concrete ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911–1979) [N1, H] The Man-Moth [N1, H] The Fish [N1, H] At the Fishhouses [H] Filling Station [H] Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance [N1] The Bight [N1] At the Fishhouses [N1] Questions of Travel [N1] The Armadillo [N1] Sestina [N1] In the Waiting Room [N1] The Moose [N1] One Art [N1] from Letter to Robert Lowell, March 21, 1972 [N1] Alfred Hayes (1911-1985) [H] In a Coffee Pot ANN PETRY (1911–1997) [N2, H] Like a Winding Sheet [N2] The Street [N2] Chapter I [The Apartment] The Witness [H]
A Streetcar Named Desire [N1] The Glass Menagerie Portrait of a Madonna [H] JOHN CHEEVER (1912–1982) [N1] The Swimmer Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) [H] From The Group from Memories of a Catholic Girlhood ---------- - Names Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956) [H] from America Is in the Heart ----------- from Chapter XIII ----------- from Chapter XIV ROBERT HAYDEN (1913–1980) [N1, N2, H] The Diver [N2] Middle Passage [N1, N2] Homage to the Empress of the Blues [N1, N2] Those Winter Sundays [N1, N2, H] Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers [N1] O Daedalus, Fly Away Home [N2] Runagate Runagate [N2] Frederick Douglass [N2] A Ballad of Remembrance [N2] Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday [N2, H] Soledad [N2] El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz [N2] A Letter from Phillis Wheatley [N2] Tour 5 [H] Summertime and the Living [H] The Peacock Belsen, Day of Liberation Tillie Lerner Olsen (b. 1913) [H] I Want You Women Up North to Know Tell Me a Riddle
Absalom
Rite The Poem as Mask Martin Luther King, Malcolm X How We Did It From Willard Gibbs [section on Amistad] RANDALL JARRELL (1914–1965) [N1] 90 North
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Second Air Force Next Day Well Water Thinking of the Lost World
The Dream Songs 1 (“Huffy Henry hid the day”) 14 (“Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so”) 29 (“There sat down, once, a thing on Henry’s heart”) 40 (“I’m scared a lonely. Never see my son”) 45 (“He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back”) 384 (“The marker slants, flowerless, day’s almost done”) BERNARD MALAMUD (1914–1986) [N1, H] The Magic Barrel Black is My Favorite Color The Angel Levine RALPH ELLISON (1914–1994) [N1, N2, H] Richard Wright’s Blues [N2] Invisible Man [N1, N2] entire text Prologue [N1, N2] Chapter I [Battle Royal] [N1, N2] Epilogue [N2] Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke [N2] The World and the Jug [N2] Remembering Richard Wright [N2] Letter to Stanley Edgar Hyman [N2] A Party Down at the Square [H]
[Dialogues with Irving Howe, Robert Penn Warren] Daddy Hickman’s Sermon in Juneteenth
Blue Winds Dancing SAUL BELLOW (1915–2005) [N1, H] The Adventures of Augie March [N1] Chapter One Looking for Mr. Green [H] From Mr. Sammler’s Planet (black character on bus)
Death of a Salesman [N1] Crucible [H]
For My People [N2] Poppa Chicken [N2] For Malcolm X [N2] Prophets for a New Day [N2]
ALBERT MURRAY (b. 1916) [N2] Train Whistle Guitar [History Lessons] from South to a Very Old Place
Colloquy in Black Rock [N1] The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket [N1] Mr. Edwards and the Spider [N1] My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow [N1] Home After Three Months Away [N1] Memories of West Street and Lepke [N1, H] Skunk Hour [N1, H] Night Sweat [N1] For the Union Dead [N1, H] For Theodore Roethke [H] Near the Ocean [H] GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917–2000) [N1, N2, H] A Street In Bronzeville [N1] kitchenette building [N1, N2] the mother [N1, N2, H] a song in the front yard [N1, N2] Sadie and Maud [N2] The Vacant Lot [N2] the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon [N2] The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith [N2, H] Maxie Allen [N2] The Rites of Cousin Vit [N2] The White Troops Had Their Orders But the Negroes Looked Like Men [N1] The Womanhood [N1] The Children of the Poor [N2] The Children of the Poor (II) [N1] The Lovers of the Poor [N2] We Real Cool [N1, N2, H] The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock [N2] A Lovely Love [N2] Malcolm X [N2] Two Dedications [N2] Riot [N2] The Third Sermon on the Warpland [N2] Young Heroes [N2] when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story [N2] Maud Martha [N2] The Bean Eaters [N1] A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon [N1, H] The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till [N1, H] The Blackstone Rangers [N1] To the Diaspora [N1] Ulysses [H] ROBERT DUNCAN (1919–1988) [N1] Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar Interrupted Forms Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919) [H] I Am Waiting Dove Sta Amore . . . The Old Italians Dying RICHARD WILBUR (b. 1921) [N1] The Beautiful Changes The Death of a Toad “A World without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness” Love Calls Us to the Things of This World The Mind-Reader Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921) [H] Seventeen Syllables JACK KEROUAC (1922–1969) [N1] From On the Road KURT VONNEGUT (1922–2007) [N1] Slaughterhouse-Five Chapter One The D.P. [story about a black child in postwar Germany] GRACE PALEY (b. 1922) [N1, H] A Conversation with My Father [N1] Here [N1] The Expensive Moment [H] JAMES DICKEY (1923–1997) [N1] Drowning with Others The Heaven of Animals Falling
To the Snake [N1] The Jacob’s Ladder [N1] In Mind [N1] Souvenir d’amitié [N1] What Were They Like? [N1] Caedmon [N1] Illustrious Ancestors [H]
Status Symbol I Am a Black Woman
Towards a Black Aesthetic Norman Mailer (1923-2007) [H] from The Armies of the Night “The White Negro” John Okada (1923-1971) [H] from No-No Boy ----------- Chapter 6 JAMES BALDWIN (1924–1987) [N1, N2, H] Giovanni’s Room Everybody’s Protest Novel [N2] Going to Meet the Man [N1, N2] Stranger in the Village [N2] Notes of a Native Son [N2] Sonny’s Blues [N2, H] Black Boy looks at White Boy The Fire Next Time From “The Threshing Floor” in Go Tell It on the Mountain From Another Country (first 90 pages) BOB KAUFMAN (1925–1986) [N2] Walking Parker Home Grandfather Was Queer, Too Jail Poems Abomunist Manifesto
The Life You Save May Be Your Own [N1] The Artificial Nigger Good Country People [N1] A Good Man Is Hard to Find [H]
From The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) MALCOLM X (EL-HAJJ MALIK EL-SHABAZZ) (1925–1965) [N2, H] The Autobiography of Malcolm X [N2, H] Chapter Eleven. Saved [N2] Chapter 19, 1965 [H] The Ballot or the Bullet
The Man Who Cried I Am 1 [In an Outdoor Café] 2 [Memories, Margrit, Morphine] 3 [Picture of the Writer]
So I Said I Am Ezra Corsons Inlet Easter Morning Singling & Doubling Together
Counting Small-Boned Bodies The Teeth Mother Naked at Last JAMES MERRILL (1926–1995) [N1] An Urban Convalescence The Broken Home Dead Center Family Week at Oracle Ranch
Kore [N1] I Know a Man [N1, H] For Love [N1, H] Words [H] Hart Crane [H] The Messengers [N1] The Birds [N1] Fathers [N1] America [H] ALLEN GINSBERG (1926–1997) [N1, H] Howl [N1, H] Footnote to Howl [N1] A Supermarket in California [N1, H] Sunflower Sutra [N1] To Aunt Rose [N1] On Burroughs’ Work [N1] Ego Confession [N1] America [H]
My Heart [H] To the Harbormaster [N1] Why I Am Not a Painter [N1, H] Poem [H] A Step Away from Them [N1] The Day Lady Died [N1, H] A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island [N1] From Personism: A Manifesto [N1] GALWAY KINNELL (b. 1927) [N1] The Porcupine Blackberry Eating After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Cemetery Angels Neverland JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927) [N1, H] Illustration [N1] Soonest Mended [N1] Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror [N1] Myrtle [N1]
W. S. MERWIN (b. 1927) [N1] The Drunk in the Furnace For the Anniversary of My Death For a Coming Extinction Losing a Language Lament for the Makers Ceremony after an Amputation JAMES WRIGHT (1927–1980) [N1] Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio To the Evening Star: Central Minnesota A Blessing A Centenary Ode: Inscribed to Little Crow, Leader of the Sioux Rebellion in Minnesota, 1862 With the Shell of a Hermit Crab
The Sand Box The Zoo Story
The Shawl PHILIP LEVINE (b. 1928) [N1] Animals Are Passing from Our Lives Detroit Grease Shop Poem Starlight Fear and Fame The Simple Truth PIRI THOMAS (1928-2011) From Down these Mean Streets ANNE SEXTON (1928–1974) [N1, H] Her Kind [H] Housewife [H] Young [H] Somewhere in Africa [H] The Truth the Dead Know [N1] The Starry Night [N1] Sylvia’s Death [N1] Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman [N1] The Death of the Fathers [N1] How We Danced The Boat
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith (b. 1929) [H] Sometimes It Just Happens That Way; That's All MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (1929–1968) [N1, N2, H] Letter from Birmingham Jail [N2] I Have a Dream [N1, N2, H] I’ve Been to the Mountaintop [N2] PAULE MARSHALL (b. 1929) [N2, H] Reena [N2] To Da-Duh, in Memoriam [N2, H] The Making of a Writer: From the Poets in the Kitchen [N2] ADRIENNE RICH (1929-2012) [N1, H] Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law [N1] “I Am in Danger—Sir—” [N1] A Valediction Forbidding Mourning [N1] Diving into the Wreck [N1, H] Power [N1, H] Coast to Coast [H] Frame [H] Not Somewhere Else, but Here [H] From a Suriver [H] Transcendental Etude [N1] Shattered Head [N1[ Five O’clock, January 2003 [N1] Wait [N1] URSULA K. LE GUIN (b. 1929) [N1] Schrödinger’s Cat She Unnames Them
Lost in the Funhouse LORRAINE HANSBERRY (1930–1965) [N2] A Raisin in the Sun The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
From The Spook Who Sat by the Door GARY SNYDER (b. 1930) [N1, H] Milton by Firelight [N1] Riprap [N1, H] August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer [N1] Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant Hills. Your Body [N1] Straight-Creek—Great Burn [N1] Ripples on the Surface [N1] Falling from a Height, Holding Hands [N1] Oil [H] Facts [H] Vapor Trails [H] Wave [H]
It Was When [H] DEREK WALCOTT From The Star Apple Kingdom Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
The Balloon [N1] At the End of the Mechanical Age [H]
Funnyhouse of a Negro The Owl Answers A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White ETHERIDGE KNIGHT (1931–1985) [N2, H] The Idea of Ancestry [N2, H] Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane [N2] For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide [N2] The Violent Space (or when your sister sleeps around for money) [H]
TONI MORRISON (b. 1931) [N1, N2, H] Song of Solomon (entire text, if possible) Part II[N2] Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature [N2] From MA thesis on Faulkner and Virginia Woolf [if we get permission] ADDISON GAYLE JR. (1932–1991) [N2] The Black Aesthetic Introduction
Morning Song [N1] Lady Lazarus [N1, H] For a Fatherless Son [H] Ariel [N1] Daddy [N1, H] Words [N1] Stings [H] Fever 103 [H] Blackberrying [N1] Purdah [N1] The Applicant [N1] Child [N1]
Separating [N1] Trust Me [H] From Brazil (1994) ERNEST J. GAINES (b. 1933) [N2, H] The Sky Is Gray PHILIP ROTH (b. 1933) [N1] From Good-bye Columbus Defender of the Faith From The Human Stain DIANE DI PRIMA (1934) From Memoirs of a Beatnik N. SCOTT MOMADAY (b. 1934) [N1, H] The Way to Rainy Mountain [N1, H] Headwaters [N1, H] Prologue [H] Introduction [N1, H] IV [N1, H] XIII [N1] XVI [H]
XVII [N1, H] XXIV [N1, H] Epilogue s[N1, H] Rainy Mountain Cemetery [N1, H] Walking Our Boundaries [H] Never Take Fire from a Woman [H] The Art of Response [H] Stations [H] The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House [H] AMIRI BARAKA/LeRoi Jones (b. 1934) [N2, H] Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note [N2] In Memory of Radio [N2] A Poem for Black Hearts [N2] A Poem for Willie Best I don’t love you [N2] Three Movements and a Coda [N2] SOS [N2]
Black Art [N2] The Invention of Comics [N2] Wailers [N2] Dutchman [N2, H] The Revolutionary Theatre [N2] An Agony. As now. [H] Ka 'Ba [H] Black People: This Is Our Destiny [H] A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand [H] Numbers, Letters [H] Joyce Johnson (b. 1934) [H] from Door Wide Open from Minor Characters SONIA SANCHEZ (b. 1934) [N2, H] Homecoming [N2] poem at thirty [N2] for our lady [N2] Summer Words of a Sistuh Addict [N2] A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women [N2] From Part Three to blk/record/buyers [H] Masks [H] Just Don't Never Give Up on Love [H] A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King [H] Father and Daughter [H] ED BULLINS (b. 1935) [N2] Goin’a Buffalo: A Tragifantasy
Soul on Ice The Primeval Mitosis
Did John’s Music Kill Him? CHARLES WRIGHT (b. 1935) [N1] Him
Two Stories A Journal of the Year of the Ox 12 December 1985 Poem Half in the Manner of Li Ho Star Turn II North American Bear MARY OLIVER (b. 1935) [N1] The Black Snake In Blackwater Woods Wild Geese Poppies Hummingbird Pauses at the Trumpet Vine JUNE JORDAN (1936–2002) [N2, H] In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. [N2] Poem about My Rights [N2, H] Poem for Guatemala [N2] Intifada [N2]
To Free Nelson Mandela [H] Moving Towards Home [H] LUCILLE CLIFTON (b. 1936) [N1, N2, H] miss rosie [N1] the lost baby poem [N1, N2] malcolm [N2] homage to my hips [N1, N2] wild blessings [N1] wishes for sons [N1, N2] blessing the boats [N1] the mississippi river empties into the gulf [N1] moonchild [N1] [oh antic god] [N1] move [N2] the thirty eighth year [H]
How Long Has Trane Been Gone STEPHEN DIXON (b. 1936) [N1] Flying
Swallow the Lake Round Midnight On Watching a Caterpillar Become a Butterfly Chicago Heat LARRY NEAL (1937–1981) [N2] The Black Arts Movement RUDOLFO A. ANAYA (b. 1937) [N1, H] Bless Me, Ultima [N1, H] Dos [N1] Dieciocho [H] LEON FORREST (1937–1997) [N2] There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden The Epistle of Sweetie Reed
Entropy
From Gravity’s Rainbow RAYMOND CARVER (1938–1988) [N1, H] Cathedral [N1, H] A Small Good Thing [H]
The Last Days of Louisiana Red [N1] Chapter 36 [Mary Dalton’s Dream] I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra [N2, H] Flight to Canada [H] Railroad Bill, a Conjure Man [N2] Dualism [N2] Chattanooga [N2] Neo-HooDoo Manifesto [N1, N2]
Fork
Prodigy The Devils A Book Full of Pictures Arriving Celebrities In the Street Late September MICHAEL S. HARPER (b. 1938) [N1, N2, H] Dear John, Dear Coltrane [N1, N2] Deathwatch [N2] Br’er Sterling and the Rocker [N2] Grandfather [N2] American History [N1] Martin’s Blues [N1] “Bird Lives”: Charles Parker in St. Louis [N1] Nightmare Begins Responsibility [N1] Song: I Want a Witness [H] Nightmare Begins Responsibility [H] Here Where Coltrane Is [H] A Narrative of the Life and Times of John Coltrane: Played by Himself [H] Camp Story [H] Nicholasa Mohr (b. 1938) [H] from Rituals of Survival Lawson Fusao Inada (b. 1938) [H] Instructions to All Persons Two Variations on a Theme by Thelonius Monk as Inspired by Mal Waldron ----------- Introduction: Monk's Prosody ----------- I. Blue Monk (linear) ----------- II. Blue Monk (percussive) Kicking the Habit On Being Asian American Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) [H] Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? TONI CADE BAMBARA (1939–1995) [N1, N2, H] Medley [N1] Raymond’s Run [N2] The Lesson [H] Brenda (Bonnie) Frazer (b. 1939) [H] from Troia: Mexican Memoirs THOMAS McGUANE (b. 1939) [N1] Gallatin Canyon Frank Chin (b. 1940) [H] Railroad Standard Time MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (b. 1940) [N1, H] The Woman Warrior [N1] No Name Woman [N1, H]
[I’d speak if I wasn’t afraid of inhaling] The Nursery [The baby / was made in a cell] O’Clock [After this girl was grown] One Crossed Out [Nobody wants crossed-out girls around] [We moved to be happy] [When I was a child] Some Day [Come back] From Bewilderment Bobbie Ann Mason (b. 1940) [H] Airwaves
A Wife's Story
The Figured Wheel The Street The Want Bone Shirt At Pleasure Bay James Welch (Blackfeet-Gros Ventre) (b. 1940) [H] from Winter in the Blood BILLY COLLINS (b. 1941) [N1] Forgetfulness Osso Buco Tuesday, June 4, 1991 I Chop Some Parsley While Listening to Art Blakey’s Version of “Three Blind Mice” The Night House Litany Sonnet
Meditation at Lagunitas Measure
Faint Music Dragonflies Mating SIMON J. ORTIZ (b. 1941) [N1, H] Passing through Little Rock [N1] Earth and Rain, the Plants & Sun [N1] Vision Shadows [N1] Poems from the Veterans Hospital [N1] Travelling [N1] From Sand Creek [N1, H] TINO VILLANUEVA (b. 1941) Convocación de palabras From Scene from the Movie GIANT
Brothers and Keepers [N2] [Robby’s Version] Damballah [N2] Valaida [H]
Entering into the Serpent [H] La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness [N1, H] How to Tame a Wild Tongue [N1] El sonavabitche [N1]
From The Motion of the Light in Water HAKI R. MADHUBUTI (b. 1942) [N2] Back Again, Home Introduction [to Think Black] The Long Reality Malcolm Spoke / who listened? a poem to complement other poems Janice Mirikitani (b. 1942) [H] For My Father Desert Flowers Breaking Tradition Recipe Pat Mora (b. 1942) [H] Border Town: 1938 Unnatural Speech University Avenue SHARON OLDS (b. 1942) [N1] Sex Without Love I Go Back to May 1937 Little Things My Father Speaks to Me from the Dead Adolescence The Talkers First Weeks The Unswept
The Call
A Trilogy of Journeys NIKKI GIOVANNI (b. 1943) [N2] For Saundra Beautiful Black Men Nikki-Rosa Knoxville, Tennessee From a Logical Point of View STEVEN MILLHAUSER (b. 1943) From Martin Dressler JAMES ALAN McPHERSON (b. 1943) [N2, H] A Solo Song: For Doc From Hue and Cry
True West LOUISE GLÜCK (b. 1943) [N1] The Drowned Children Descending Figure 2 The Sick Child 3 For My Sister Appearances Vespers October
In Texas Grass Conversation Overheard Impressions / of Chicago; For Howlin’ Wolf
Puerto Rican Obituary Traffic Violations Lee Smith (b. 1944) [H] The Bubba Stories Richard Rodriguez (b. 1944) [H] from The Hunger of Memory SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS (1944–1999) [N2] The Peacock Poems: 1 I Want Aretha to Set This to Music Tell Martha Not to Moan ALICE WALKER (b. 1944) [N1, N2, H] Women [N2] Outcast [N2] On Stripping Bark from Myself [N2] “Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning” [N2] In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens [N2] Everyday Use [N1, N2] Laurel [H] Advancing Luna—and Ida B. Wells [N2] The Color Purple [N2] [God Love All Them Feelings]
Fences [N1] Joe Turner’s Come and Gone [N1, N2]
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Seeing
Jesus Was Crucified It Is Deep For Sistuhs Wearin’ Straight Hair KAY RYAN (b. 1945) [N1] Say Uncle Star Block The Material Carrying a Ladder The Failure, 2 Lighthouse Keeper The Niagara River Home to Roost Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard MIGUEL PIÑERO (1946-1988) Short Eyes (entire play) Selected poems
Within the Veil Columba
In the Field ANN BEATTIE (b. 1947) [N1] Weekend
Bloodchild
Glengarry Glen Ross YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA (b. 1947) [N1, N2, H] February in Sydney [N2] Facing It [N1, N2] Sunday Afternoons [N2] Banking Potatoes [N2] Birds on a Powerline [N2] My Father’s Love Letters [N1] Slam, Dunk, & Hook [N1] Song for My Father [N1] [Sometimes you could be] [N1] When Dusk Weighs Daybreak [N1] Jasmine [N1] Tu Do Street [H] Prisoners [H] Thanks [H] Facing It [H] Fog Galleon [H] NATHANIEL MACKEY (b. 1947) [N2] Falso Brilhante Song of the Andoumboulou: 8 Djbot Baghostus’s Run 26.IX.81 CHARLES JOHNSON (b. 1948) [N2] From Oxherding Tale (first few chapters and Almuseri section) “The End of the Black American Narrative”
Nappy Edges Bocas: A Daughter’s Geography
Throat Song: The Rotating Earth Loo-wit To the Hopi in Richmond (Santa Fe Indian Village) If I Am Too Brown or Too White for You Story Keeper Julia Sandra Maria Esteves (b. 1948) and Luz María Umpierre (b. 1947): A Poetry Exchange [H] A la Mujer Borrinqueña (Esteves) In Response (Umpierre) So Your Name Isn't María Cristina (Esteves) Music d'Orsay (Umpierre) LESLIE MARMON SILKO (b. 1948) [N1, H] Lullaby
From Maus Jessica Hagedorn (b. 1949) [H] The Blossoming of BongBong The Death of Anna May Wong Filipino Boogie Homesick Vulva Operetta Dorothy Allison (b. 1949) [N1, H] Don't Tell Me You Don't Know From Stubbon Girls and Mean Stories Victor Hernandez Cruz (b. 1949) [H] urban dream Mountain Building Table of Contents Carolyn Forché (b. 1950) [H] from The Country Between Us ----------- The Colonel Because One Is Always Forgotten As Children Together from The Recording Angel Elegy GAYL JONES (b. 1949) [N2] From Corregidora JAMAICA KINCAID (b. 1949) [N1, N2] A Small Place (entire text) A Little Revenge from the Periphery (entire essay)
Norton #59900 DAVID BRADLEY (b. 1950) [N2] The Chaneysville Incident [Old Jack]
The Geese At Luca Signorelli’s Resurrection of the Body The Dream of the Unified Field JOY HARJO (b. 1951) [N1, H] Call It Fear [N1] White Bear [N1] Summer Night [N1] The Flood [N1] When the World As We Knew It Ended— [N1] The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window[H]
Yellow Light Off from Swing Shift Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic? And Your Soul Shall Dance The Unreal Dwelling: My Years in Volcano Paula Vogel (b. 1951) [H] How I Learned to Drive Edward P. Jones (b. 1951) From The Known World Karen Tei Yamashita (b. 1951) [H] from Tropic of Orange ----------- 2. Benefits - Koreatown Tato LavIera (b. 1951) [H] frío
Latero Story Jimmy Santiago Baca (b. 1952) [H] I've Taken Risks I Put on My Jacket Commitment Ghost Reading in Sacramento RITA DOVE (b. 1952) [N1, N2, H] David Walker [N2] Geometry [N1] Adolescence—I [N1] Adolescence—II [N1] Adolescence—III [N1] Parsley [N1, N2] Receiving the Stigmata [N2] Thomas And Beulah [N1, N2] The Event [N1, N2] Motherhood [N2] Daystar [N2, H] The Oriental Ballerina [N2, H] Pastoral [N2] Mother Love [N2] Statistic: The Witness Mother Love Demeter Mourning History Demeter’s Prayer to Hades The Zeppelin Factory [N1] Dusting [N1] Poem in Which I Refuse Contemplation [N1] Missing [N1] Rosa [N1] Fox Trot Fridays [N1] Kentucky, 1833 [H]
Claims
My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Memory En Mis Ojos No Hay Días Latin Women Pray WALTER MOSLEY (b. 1952) [N2] Equal Opportunity Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952) [H] Ducks
My Father and the Figtree Blood Where the Soft Air Lives ALBERTO RÍOS (b. 1952) [N1] Wet Camp
Taking Away the Name of a Nephew Seniors
Refugio’s Hair The Chair She Sits In Gary Soto (b. 1952) [H] Braly Street The Cellar Mexicans Begin Jogging Black Hair Kearney Park Rane Arroyo (b. 1953) [H] My Transvestite Uncle Is Missing Caribbean Braille Write What You Know That Flag HARRYETTE MULLEN (b. 1953) [N2] Muse & Drudge [Sapphire’s lyre styles] [country clothes hung on her all and sundry] [odds meeting on a bus] [why these blues come from us] [go on sister sing your song] [tomboy girl with cowboy boots] [sauce squandering sassy cook] [marry at a hotel, annul ’em] [precious cargo up crooked alleys] [with all that rope they gave us] [the royal yellow sovereign] [tom-tom can’t catch] [massa had a yeller] [cough drops prick thick] [ain’t cut drylongso] [soulless divaism] [moon, whoever knew you]
Woman Hollering Creek [N1] Eleven [H]
Dear John Wayne [N1] I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move [N1] Grief [N1] Fleur [N1]
Uncle’s First Rabbit [N1] For Virginia Chavez [N1] Visions of Mexico While at a Writing Symposium in Port Townsend, Washington [N1] The Body as Braille [N1] Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway [H] Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Read Person Could Believe in the War Between Races [H] Macho [H] Bananas [H] Helena María Viramontes (b. 1954) [H] The Cariboo Café Aurora Levins Morales (b. 1954) [H] Child of the Americas Puertoricanness Heart of My Heart, Bone of My Bone Gish Jen (b. 1955) [H] In the American Society From Mona in the Promised Land
Strands [H] Resistance: A Poem on Ikat Cloth [H] Cuttings [H] CATHY SONG (b. 1955) [N1] The White Porch Beauty and Sadness Lost Sister Heaven
Conditions XXI XXII
XXIV LI-YOUNG LEE (b. 1957) [N1, H] The Gift [N1] Persimmons [N1] Eating Alone [N1] Eating Together [N1] This Room and Everything in It [N1, H] Nativity [N1]
RICHARD POWERS (b. 1957) From The Echo Maker [N1] From The Time of Our Singing CARYL PHILLIPS (b. 1958) [N2] From Cambridge or The Nature of Blood Crossing the River II. West
Essay about not going to Oprah Winfrey Show From Freedom Barack Obama (*1961) Excerpt from Dreams from My Father David Foster Wallace (b. 1962) [H] The Devil is a Busy Man Paul Beatty (*1962) The White Boy Shuffle Trey Ellis (*1962) “The New Black Aesthetic” From Platitudes Suzan-Lori Parks (*1963) Topdog/Underdog Fucking A In the Blood Getting Mother’s Body
Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine Ruined
Coming Home Again SHERMAN ALEXIE (b. 1966) [N1, H] At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School [N1] Pawn Shop [N1] Sister Fire, Brother Smoke [N1] Tourists [N1] 3. Marilyn Monroe The Exaggeration of Despair [N1] Crow Testament [N1] This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona [N1] Survivorman [N1] Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi
JHUMPA LAHIRI (b. 1967) [N1] Sexy
Drown
From The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) EDWIDGE DANTICAT (b. 1969) [N1, N2, H] New York Day Women [H] From Brother, I’m Dying [N1] Essay from Writing Dangerously COLSON WHITEHEAD (b. 1969) [N2] From The Intuitionist John Henry Days [1]
[2] [3]
Tale of Apricot
From What is the What? (2011) Terrance Hayes (b. 1971) From Lighthead (2010) “The Avocado”
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