Below you will find copies of some of the reading materials we will encounter in this class.
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Elephant in the Village of the Blind
Recitatif (follow along with the audio if desired)
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised By Wolves
Not on 2020 Reading List
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised By Wolves
[Stop all the Clocks...] by W.H. Auden
123rd Street Rap by Willie Perdomo
Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy
Hanging Fire by Audre Lorde
I, too by Langston Hughes
La Migra by Pat Mora
Leaving the Motel by W.D Snodgrass
London by William Blake
Love Poem by Linda Pastan
Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney
Shall I Compare Thee (Sonnet 18)by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
The Changeling by Judith Ortiz Cofer
The Facebook Sonnet by Sherman Alexie
The Vacuum by Howard Nemerov
The Victims by Sharon Olds
To a Daughter Leaving Home by Linda Pastan
What's that Smell in the Kitchen by Marge Peircy
Not on 2020 Reading List
[l(a] by E.e Cummings
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass by Emily Dickinson
A Red Red Rose by Robert Burns
A Sonnet is a Moment's Monument by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish
Ballad of Birmingham by Dudley Randall
Beware: do not read this poem by Ishmael Reed
Death of a Young Son by Drowning by Margaret Atwood
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
How do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Like as the Waves Make Towards (Sonnet 60) by William Shakespeare
Marks by Linda Pastan
Mr. Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan
My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke
On my First Son by Ben Johnson
On the Sonnet by John Keats
Sonnet by Billy Collins
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
The Word Plum by Helen Chasin
This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvel
To my Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet
Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning
Trifles by Susan Glaspell
Trifles (Full Audio) by Susan Glaspell
A Raisin in the Sun pdf by Lorraine Hansberry
A Raisin in the Sun (Full Audio) by Lorraine Hansberry
*Hamlet by William Shakespeare* if time allows
Hamlet (Full Audio) by William Shakespeare
Not on 2020 Reading List
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw