Annotated Readings Schedule

 

Week 1

August 27 ROBERT FROST The Road Not Taken MAGARET FISHBACK POWERS MARY STEVENSON or Anonymous Footprints August 29 EDGAR LEE MASTERS Lucinda Matlock Petit, the Poet Seth Compton Trainor, the Druggist PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR We Wear the Mask When Malindy Sings Sympathy The Haunted Oak ROBERT FROST Mending Wall After Apple-Picking Birches Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening CARL SANDBURG Chicago Planked Whitefish

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Week 2

September 3 WALLACE STEVENS Anecdote of the Jar The Emperor of Ice-Cream Sunday Morning The Idea of Order at Key West EZRA POUND In a Station of the Metro Portrait d'une Femme September 5 WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The Young Housewife Queen-Anne's-Lace To Elsie The Red Wheelbarrow This is Just to Say Landscape with the Fall of Icarus [Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Peter Bruegel] MARIANNE MOORE Poetry A Grave Bird-Witted

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Week 3

September 10 CLAUDE MCKAY The Harlem Dancer To The White Fiends If We Must Die America Mulatto Look Within LANGSTON HUGHES Negro The Negro Speaks of Rivers The Weary Blues Mulatto Fire Ballad of Roosevelt Let America Be America Again Harlem COUNTEE CULLEN Incident Yet Do I Marvel Heritage ROBERT HAYDEN Runagate Runagate A Letter from Phillis Wheatley O Daedalus, Fly Away Home GWENDOLYN BROOKS a song in the front yard We Real Cool The Blackstone Rangers The Boy Died in My Alley September 12 JAMES DICKEY The Sheep Child Falling JAMES WRIGHT Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota A Blessing A Centenary Ode: Inscribed to Little Crow, Leader of the Sioux Rebellion in Minnesota, 1862 ALLEN GINSBERG Howl

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Week 4

September 17 ROBERT LOWELL Memories of West Street and Lepke Skunk Hour For the Union Dead ANNE SEXTON The Truth The Dead Know And One for My Dame SYLVIA PLATH Tulips Daddy Ariel Lady Lazarus ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane The Idea of Ancestry For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide AMIRI BARAKA (Leroi Jones) SOS Black Art When We'll Worship Jesus September 19 ADRIENNE RICH Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Diving into the Wreck Power AUDRE LORDE Coal Sisters in Arms JUDY GRAHN I have Come to Claim Marilyn Monroe's Body Vietnamese Woman Speaking to an American Soldier RAY A. YOUNG BEAR (b. 1950) In Viewpoint: Poem for 14 Catfish and The Town of Tama, Iowa CAROLYN FORCHÉ (b. 1950) The Colonel RITA DOVE (b. 1952) Parsley ANA CASTILLO (b. 1953) Seduced by Natassja Kinski LOUISE ERDRICH (b. 1954) Indian Boarding School: The Runaways Dear John Wayne SANDRA CISNEROS (b. 1954) Little Clown, My Heart MARILYN CHIN (b. 1955) How I Got That Name MARTÍN ESPADA (b. 1957) Bully Federico's Ghost The Skull Beneath the Skin of the Mango SHERMAN ALEXIE (b. 1966) Indian Boy Love Song (#2) No. 9 (from The Native American Broadcasting System) Evolution Scalp Dance by Spokane Indians [Scalp Dance by Spokane Indians by Paul Kane] How to Write the Great American Indian Novel

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