Poems
"Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins
"Television" by Roald Dahl
"Dinosauria, We" by Charles Bukowski
"The Laughing Heart" by Charles Bukowski
"Death, Be Not Proud" by John Donne
"The Alphabet Conspiracy" by Rita Mae Reese
"Education" by Peter Boyle
"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden
"Sadie and Maud" by Gwendolyn Brooks
"Confessions of a Recycled Shopping Bag" by John Yau
"If-" by Rudyard Kipling
"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas
"The City Planners" by Margaret Atwood
"A Death at the Office" by Ted Kooser
"Turn Off the TV!" by Bruce Lansky
"Transcendentalism" by Lucia Perillo
"On Education" by Elizabeth Bentley
"Prof of Profs" by Geoffrey Brock
"Schools" by Paula Tatarunis
"Oh Me! Oh Life!" by Walt Whitman
"Are you the new person drawn to me?" by Walt Whitman
"O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman
"Childhood Ideogram" by Larry Levis
Short Stories
"2BR02B" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde
"How to Become a Writer" by Lorrie Moore
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson