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== A. -1820 ==
=== Literature to 1700 ===
* STORIES OF THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD
** The Iroquois Creation Story (version by David Cusick)
** Pima Stories of the Beginning of the World (versions by Thin Leather and J. W. Lloyd)
** The Story of the Creation
** The Story of the Flood
* CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1451–1506)
** From Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage (February 15, 1493)
** From Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage (July 7, 1503)
* BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS CASAS (1474–1566)
** The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies
* ÁLVAR NÚÑEZ CABEZA DE VACA (c. 1490–1558)
** The Relation of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
* THOMAS HARRIOT (1560–1621)
** A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
* JOHN SMITH (1580–1631)
** The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles
** A Description of New England
** New England’s Trials
* NATIVE AMERICAN TRICKSTER TALES
** WINNEBAGO
*** Felix White Sr.’s Introduction to Wakjankaga (transcribed and translated by Kathleen Danker and Felix White)
*** The Winnebago Trickster Cycle (edited by Paul Radin)
** SIOUX
*** Ikto Conquers Iya, the Eater (transcribed and edited by Ella C. Deloria)
** KOASATI
*** The Bungling Host (versions by Bel Abbey and Selin Williams; recorded and translated by John R. Swanton and Geoffrey Kimball)
** CLATSOP CHINOOK
*** Coyote Establishes Fishing Taboos (translated and transcribed by Franz Boas and William Bright)
** NAVAJO
*** Coyote, Skunk, and the Prairie Dogs (performed by Hugh Yellowman; recorded and translated by Barre Toelken)
* WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590–1657)
** Of Plymouth Plantation
* THOMAS MORTON (c. 1579–1647)
** New English Canaan
* JOHN WINTHROP (1588–1649)
** A Model of Christian Charity
** The Journal of John Winthrop
* THE BAY PSALM BOOK
** Psalm 2 [“Why rage the Heavens furiously”]
** Psalm 19 [“The heavens doe declare”]
** Psalm 23 [“The Lord to mee a shepherd is”]
** Psalm 24 [“The earth Iehovah’s is”]
** Psalm 100 [“Make yee a joyfull sounding noyse”] (both versions)
** Psalm 120 [“Vnto the Lord, in my distresse”]
* ROGER WILLIAMS (c. 1603–1683)
** A Key into the Language of America
** The Bloody Tenet of Persecution
** A Letter to the Town of Providence
* ANNE BRADSTREET (c. 1612–1672)
** The Prologue
** In Honor of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy
** Memory
** To the Memory of My Dear and Ever Honored Father Thomas
** Dudley Esq.
** To Her Father with Some Verses
** Contemplations
** The Flesh and the Spirit
** The Author to Her Book
** Before the Birth of One of Her Children
** To My Dear and Loving Husband
** A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment
** Another [Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment]
** In Reference to Her Children, 23 June, 1659
** In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet
** In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet
** On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet
** For Deliverance from a Fever
** Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House
** As Weary Pilgrim
** To My Dear Children
* MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH (1631–1705)
** The Day of Doom
* MARY ROWLANDSON (c. 1636–1711)
** A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
* EDWARD TAYLOR (c. 1642–1729)
** Psalm Two (First Version)
** PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS
*** Prologue
*** Meditation 8 (First Series)
*** Meditation 16 (First Series)
*** Meditation 22 (First Series)
*** Meditation 38 (First Series)
*** Meditation 42 (First Series)
*** Meditation 26 (Second Series)
*** Meditation 150 (Second Series)
** GOD’S DETERMINATIONS
*** The Preface
*** The Soul’s Groan to Christ for Succor
*** Christ’s Reply
** Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
** Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold
** Huswifery
** A Fig for Thee, Oh! Death
* SAMUEL SEWALL (1652–1730)
** The Diary of Samuel Sewall
** The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial
* COTTON MATHER (1663–1728)
** The Wonders of the Invisible World
** MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA
*** Galeacius Secundus: The Life of William Bradford, Esq., Governor of Plymouth Colony
*** Nehemias Americanus: The Life of John Winthrop, Esq., Governor of the Massachusetts Colony
* ROBERT CALEF (c. 1647–1719)
** More Wonders of the Invisible World
** A Letter to Mr. C[otton] M[ather]
** Account of Margaret Rule
* “A NOTABLE EXPLOIT”: HANNAH DUSTAN’S CAPTIVITY AND REVENGE
** Samuel Sewall
*** Diary, April 29, May 12, 1697
** Cotton Mather
*** A Notable Exploit
** Jonathan Carver
*** Travels through America
** John G. Whittier
*** The Mother’s Revenge
** Henry D. Thoreau
*** A Week on the Concord and Merrimack
** Sarah J. Hale
*** The Father’s Choice
* THE NEW-ENGLAND PRIMER (1690)
** Alphabet
=== American Literature 1700–1820 ===
* SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT (1666–1727)
** The Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York
* WILLIAM BYRD (1674–1744)
** The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709–1712
* JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703–1758)
** Personal Narrative
** On Sarah Pierpont
** Sarah Edwards’s Narrative, from Some Thoughts on the State of Religion
** A Divine and Supernatural Light
** Letter to Rev. Dr. Benjamin Colman (May 30, 1735)
** [The Great Awakening]
** Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
* NATIVE AMERICANS: CONTACT AND CONFLICT
** Pontiac’s Speech at Detroit (1763)
** From Samson Occom’s autobiography (1768)
** Thomas Jefferson’s citation of Chief Logan’s speech, from Notes on the State of Virginia (1784–5),
** Red Jacket to the U.S. Senate (1792)
** Tecumseh’s speech to the Osages (1811?)
* BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706–1790)
** The Way to Wealth
** Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One
** Information to Those Who Would Remove to America
** Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America
** The Autobiography
* JOHN WOOLMAN (1720–1772)
** The Journal of John Woolman
* J. HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CRÈVECOEUR (1735–1813)
** Letters from an American Farmer
* JOHN ADAMS (1735–1826) and ABIGAIL ADAMS (1744–1818)
** The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
*** Abigail Adams to John Adams (August 19, 1774) [Classical Parallels]
*** John Adams to Abigail Adams (September 16, 1774) [Prayers at the Congress]
*** John Adams to Abigail Adams (July 23, 1775) [Dr. Franklin]
*** John Adams to Abigail Adams (October 29, 1775) [Prejudice in Favor of New England]
*** Abigail Adams to John Adams (November 27, 1775) [The Building Up a Great Empire]
*** John Adams to Abigail Adams (July 3, 1776) [These Colonies Are Free and Independent States]
*** John Adams to Abigail Adams (July 3, 1776) [Reflections on the Declaration of Independence]
*** Abigail Adams to John Adams (July 14, 1776) [The Declaration. Smallpox. The Grey Horse]
*** John Adams to Abigail Adams (July 20, 1776) [Do My Friends  Think I Have Forgotten My Wife and Children?]
*** Abigail Adams to John Adams (July 21, 1776) [Smallpox. The Proclamation for Independence Read Aloud]
* THOMAS PAINE (1737–1809)
** Common Sense
** The Crisis, No. 1
** The Age of Reason
* THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743–1826)
** The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
** The Declaration of Independence
** Notes on the State of Virginia
* THE FEDERALIST
** No. 1 [Alexander Hamilton]
** No. 10 [James Madison]
* OLAUDAH EQUIANO (1745?–1797) 747
** The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself
* WOMEN’S POETRY: FROM MANUSCRIPT TO PRINT
** Jane Colman Turell
** Annis Boudinot Stockton
** Sarah Wentworth Morton
** Mercy Otis Warren
** Anne Eliza Bleecker
** Margaretta Faugeres
* JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY (1751–1820)
** On the Equality of the Sexes
** History of Miss Wellwood
* PHILIP FRENEAU (1752–1832)
** A Vision
** On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country
** The Wild Honey Suckle
** The Indian Burying Ground
** To Sir Toby
** On Mr. Paine’s Rights of Man
** On the Religion of Nature
** On Observing a Large Red-Streak Apple
* PHILLIS WHEATLEY (c. 1753–1784)
** On Being Brought from Africa to America
** To Mæcenas
** To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth
** To the University of Cambridge, in New England
** On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770
** Thoughts on the Works of Providence
** To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
** To His Excellency General Washington
** Letters
*** To John Thornton (April 21, 1772) [The Bible My Chief Study]
*** To Rev. Samson Occom (February 11, 1774) [The Natural Rights of Negroes]
* ROYALL TYLER (1757–1826)
** The Contrast
* HANNAH FOSTER (1757–1840)
** The Coquette
* TABITHA TENNEY (1762–1837)
** Female Quixotism

== B. 1820-1865 ==
* WASHINGTON IRVING (1783–1859)
** Rip Van Winkle
** The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
* JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789–1851)
** The Pioneers
** The Last of the Mohicans
* CATHARINE MARIA SEDGWICK (1789–1867)
** Hope Leslie
* LYDIA HOWARD HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY
** Death of an Infant
** The Suttee
** To the First Slave Ship
** Columbus before the University of Salamanca
** Indian Names
** The Coral Inset
** To a Shred of Linen
** Niagara
** Our Aborigines
** The Two Draughts
** Fallen Forests
** Erin’s Daughter
** Two Old Women
* WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794–1878)
** Thanatopsis
** To a Waterfowl
** To an American Painter Departing for Europe
** The Prairies
* WILLIAM APESS (1798–1839)
** An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man
* JANE JOHNSON SCHOOLCRAFT (1800–1842)
** Elegy on the death of my son William Henry, at St. Mary’s
** Sweet Willy
** To the Pine Tree
** Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior
** Two Songs
** “My lover is tall and handsome”
** Moowis, The Indian Coquette
** The Little Spirit, or Boy Man, An Odjibwa Tale
* CAROLINE STANSBURY KIRKLAND (1801–1864)
** A New Home—Who’ll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life
* LYDIA MARIA CHILD (1802–1880)
** Letters from New-York
*** Letter I [The Streets of a Modern Babylon]
*** Letter XIV [Burying-ground of the Poor]
*** Letter XX [Birds]
*** Letter XXVIII [Anecdote of a Donkey; Universal Harmony]
*** Letter XXXIV [Women’s Rights]
*** Letter XXXVI [Barnum’s American Museum]
* RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803–1882)
** Nature
** The American Scholar
** The Divinity School Address
** Self-Reliance
** The Poet
** Experience
** John Brown
** Fate
** Thoreau
** Each and All
** The Snow-Storm
** Bacchus
** Merlin
** Brahma
** Letter to Walt Whitman
* NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804–1864)
** My Kinsman, Major Molineux
** Young Goodman Brown
** Wakefield
** The May-Pole of Merry Mount
** The Minister’s Black Veil
** The Birth-Mark
** Rappaccini’s Daughter
** The Scarlet Letter
** The House of the Seven Gables
* HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807–1882)
** A Psalm of Life
** The Slave Singing at Midnight
** The Day Is Done
** Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
** The Fire of Drift-wood
** The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
** My Lost Youth
** The Cross of Snow
* JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807–1892)
** The Hunters of Men
** Ichabod!
** Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
* EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809–1849)
** Sonnet—To Science
** To Helen
** Israfel
** The City in the Sea
** Alone
** The Raven
** To ———. Ulalume: A Ballad
** Annabel Lee
** Ligeia
** The Fall of the House of Usher
** William Wilson. A Tale
** The Man of the Crowd
** The Masque of the Red Death
** The Tell-Tale Heart
** The Black Cat
** The Purloined Letter
** The Cask of Amontillado
** The Philosophy of Composition
** From The Poetic Principle
* ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809–1865)
** A House Divided: Speech Delivered at Springfield, Illinois, at the Close of the Republican State Convention, June 16, 1858
** Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863
** Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
* MARGARET FULLER (1810–1850)
** The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men. Woman versus Women
** Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
** Mrs. Child’s Letters
** Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
** Fourth of July
** Things and Thoughts in Europe
* SLAVERY, RACE, AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
** Thomas Jefferson
*** Notes on the State of Virginia
** David Walker
*** Appeal
** William Lloyd Garrison
*** To the Public
** Angelina E. Grimké
*** Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
** Sojourner Truth
*** I Am a Woman’s Rights
** Martin R. Delany
*** From Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent
* HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811–1896)
** Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly
* FANNY FERN (SARAH WILLIS PARTON) (1811–1872)
** Aunt Hetty on Matrimony
** Hungry Husbands
** Barnum’s Museum
** Tom Pax’s Conjugal Soliloquy
** Male Criticism on Ladies’ Books
** “Fresh Leaves, by Fanny Fern”
** A Law More Nice Than Just
** Hungry Husbands
** Ruth Hall
* HARRIET JACOBS (c. 1813–1897)
** Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
* WILLIAM WELLS BROWN
** Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave
** Narrative of the Life and Escape of William Wells Brown
** Clotel, or The President’s Daughter
* HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817–1862)
** Resistance to Civil Government
** Walden, or Life in the Woods
** Slavery in Massachusetts
** A Plea for Captain John Brown
* FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818–1895)
** Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
** My Bondage and My Freedom
** What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
** The Heroic Slave
* SECTION, REGION, NATION
** Daniel Webster
*** from First Settlement of New England
** William Gilmore Simms
*** Written in Mississippi
*** Americanism in Literature
** Richard Henry Dana
*** Two Years before the Mast
** John Louis O’Sullivan
*** Annexation
** Francis Parkman
*** The California and Oregon Trail
** Louise Amelia Smith Clappe
*** California, in 1851 and 1852. Residence in the Mines
** Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut
*** Mary Chesnut’s Civil War
* WALT WHITMAN (1819–1892)
** Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855)
** INSCRIPTIONS
*** One’s Self I Sing
*** Shut Not Your Doors
*** Song of Myself
** CHILDREN OF ADAM
*** From Pent-up Aching Rivers
*** A Woman Waits for Me
*** Spontaneous Me
*** Once I Pass’d through a Populous City
*** Facing West from California’s Shores
** CALAMUS
*** Scented Herbage of My Breast
*** Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
*** Trickle Drops
*** Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
*** Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
** SEA-DRIFT
*** Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
*** As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
*** BY THE ROADSIDE
*** When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
*** The Dalliance of the Eagles
** DRUM-TAPS
*** Beat! Beat! Drums!
*** Cavalry Crossing a Ford
*** Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
*** A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
*** A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
*** As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods
*** The Wound-Dresser
*** Reconciliation
*** As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
*** Spirit Whose Work Is Done
** MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
*** When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
** WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH
** A Noiseless Patient Spider
** Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson [Whitman’s 1856 Manifesto]
** Live Oak, with Moss
** Democratic Vistas
* HERMAN MELVILLE (1819–1891)
** Hawthorne and His Mosses
** Moby-Dick
** Bartleby, the Scrivener
** The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids
** Benito Cereno
** BATTLE-PIECES
*** The Portent
*** Misgivings
*** A Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Flight
*** Shiloh
*** The House-top
** JOHN MARR AND OTHER SAILORS
*** The Maldive Shark
*** The Berg
** TIMOLEON
*** Monody
*** Art
** Billy Budd, Sailor
* NATIVE AMERICANS: STRUGGLE AND SURVIVAL
** Black Hawk
*** Autobiography
** Petalesharo’s speech in Washington (1822)
** Elias Boudinot
*** the Cherokee Phoenix (January 1829)
** [Memorial of the Cherokee Citizens, December 18, 1829]
** [Memorial of the Cherokee Citizens, December 18, 1829]
** Ralph Waldo Emerson: Letter to President Martin Van Buren (April 1838)
* ELIZABETH STODDARD
** Lemorne Versus Huell
* FRANCES E. W. HARPER
** To Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe
** Eliza Harris
** Ethiopia
** The Tennessee Hero
** The Slave Mother
** Bury Me in a Free Land
** The Colored People in America
** The Two Offers
* EMILY DICKINSON (1830–1886)
** 39 (49) (I never lost as much but twice - ) 
** 112 (67) (Success is counted sweetest) 
** 122 (130) (These are the days when Birds come back - ) 
** 123 (131) (Besides the Autumn poets sing) 
** 124 (216) (Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - ) 
** 146 (148) (All overgrown by cunning moss) 
** 194 (1072) (Title divine - is mine!) 
** 202 (185) (“Faith” is a fine invention) 
** 207 (214) (I taste a liquor never brewed - ) 
** 225 (199) (I’m “wife” - I’ve finished that - ) 
** 236 (324) (Some keep the Sabbath going to Church - ) 
** 256 (285) (The Robin’s my Criterion for Tune - ) 
** 259 (287) (A Clock stopped - ) 
** 260 (288) (I’m Nobody! Who are you?) 
** 269 (249) (Wild Nights - Wild Nights!) 
** 279 (664) (Of all the Souls that stand create - ) 
** 320 (258) (There’s a certain Slant of light) 
** 339 (241) (I like a look of Agony) 
** 340 (280) (I felt a Funeral, in my Brain) 
** 347 (348) (I dreaded that first Robin, so) 
** 348 (505) (I would not paint - a picture - ) 
** 355 (510) (It was not Death, for I stood up) 
** 359 (328) (A Bird came down the Walk - ) 
** 365 (338) (I know that He exists) 
** 372 (341) (After great pain, a formal feeling comes - ) 
** 373 (501) (This World is not conclusion) 
** 381 (326) (I cannot dance opon my Toes - ) 
** 395 (336) (The face I carry with me - last - ) 
** 407 (670) (One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - ) 
** 409 (303) (The Soul selects her own Society - ) 
** 411 (528) (Mine - by the Right of the White Election!) 
** 446 (448) (This was a Poet - ) 
** 448 (449) (I died for Beauty - but was scarce) 
** 466 (657) (I dwell in Possibility - ) 
** 475 (488) (Myself was formed - a Carpenter - ) 
** 477 (315) (He fumbles at your Soul) 
** 479 (712) (Because I could not stop for Death - ) 
** 519 (441) (This is my letter to the World) 
** 521 (597) (It always felt to me - a wrong) 
** 576 (305) (The difference between Despair) 
** 588 (536) (The Heart asks Pleasure – first - ) 
** 591 (465) (I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - ) 
** 598 (632) (The Brain - is wider than the Sky - ) 
** 600 (312) (Her - “last Poems” - ) 
** 620 (435) (Much Madness is divinest Sense - ) 
** 627 (593) (I think I was enchanted) 
** 648 (547) (I’ve seen a Dying Eye) 
** 656 (520) (I started Early - Took my Dog - ) 
** 675 (401) (What Soft - Cherubic Creatures - ) 
** 760 (650) (Pain - has an Element of Blank - ) 
** 764 (754) (My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - ) 
** 788 (709) (Publication - is the Auction) 
** 796 (824) (The Wind begun to knead the Grass - ) 
** 817 (822) (This Consciousness that is aware) 
** 843 (978) (It bloomed and dropt, a Single Noon - ) 
** 857 (732) (She rose to His Requirement - dropt) 
** 895 (1068) (Further in Summer than the Birds) 
** 935 (1540) (As imperceptibly as Grief) 
** 1096 (986) (A narrow Fellow in the Grass) 
** 1108 (1078) (The Bustle in a House) 
** 1163 (1138) (A Spider sewed at Night) 
** 1243 (1126) (Shall I take thee, the Poet said) 
** 1263 (1129) (Tell all the Truth but tell it slant - ) 
** 1353 (1247) (To pile like Thunder to it’s close) 
** 1454 (1397) (It sounded as if the streets were running) 
** 1489 (1463) (A Route of Evanescence) 
** 1577 (1545) (The Bible is an antique Volume - ) 
** 1593 (There came a Wind like a Bugle—) 
** 1665 (1581) (The farthest Thunder that I heard) 
** 1668 (1624) (Apparently with no surprise) 
** 1675 (1601) (Of God we ask one favor, that we may be forgiven - ) 
** 1715 (1651) (A word made Flesh is seldom) 
** 1773 (1732) (My life closed twice before it’s close) 
** Letter Exchange from Fascicle 10 with Susan Gilbert Dickinson on Poem 124 (216)
** Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson
** [Say If My Verse Is Alive?] (April 15, 1862)
** [Thank You for the Surgery] (April 25, 1862)
** [Will You Be My Preceptor?] (June 7, 1862)
** [My Business Is Circumference] (July 1862)
* REBECCA HARDING DAVIS (1831–1910)
** Life in the Iron-Mills

== C. 1865-1914 ==
* WALT WHITMAN (1819–1892)
** Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
** Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
** Song of Myself (1881)
* EMILY DICKINSON (1830–1886)
** 49 (39) (I never lost as much but twice)
** 112 (67) (Success is counted sweetest)
** 202 (185) (“Faith” is a fine invention)
** 207 (214) (I taste a liquor never brewed - )
** 124 (216) (Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - )
** 225 (199) (I’m “wife” - I’ve finished that - )
** 236 (324) (Some keep the Sabbath going to Church - )
** 269 (249) (Wild Nights - Wild Nights!)
** 289 (280) (I felt a Funeral, in my Brain)
** 320 (258) (There’s a certain Slant of light)
** 339 (241) (I like a look of Agony)
** 359 (328) (A Bird came down the Walk - )
** 372 (341) (After great pain, a formal feeling comes - )
** 409 (303) (The Soul selects her own Society - )
** 448 (449) (I died for Beauty - but was scarce)
** 479 (712) (Because I could not stop for Death - )
** 519 (441) (This is my letter to the World)
** 585 (383) (I like to see it lap the miles)
** 591 (465) (I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - )
** 598 (632) (The Brain - is wider than the Sky - )
** 620 (435) (Much Madness is divinest Sense - )
** 640 (706) (I cannot live with you)
** 656 (520) (I started Early - Took my Dog - )
** 764 (754) (My Life had stood - a loaded Gun - )
** 1086 (986) (A narrow Fellow in the Grass)
** 1263 (1129) (Tell all the Truth but tell it slant - )
** 1624 (Apparently with no surprise)
** 1773 (1732) (My life closed twice before its close;)]
* MARÍA AMPARO RUIZ DE BURTON (1835–1895)
** The Squatter and the Don: A Novel Descriptive of
* MARK TWAIN (Samuel L. Clemens) (1835–1910)
** The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
** Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
** Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences
** Roughing It
** Letters from the Earth
* BRET HARTE (1836–1902)
** The Luck of Roaring Camp
** Miggles
** Tennessee’s Partner 
* HENRY ADAMS (1838–1918)
** The Education of Henry Adams
* AMBROSE BIERCE (1842–1914?)
** An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
** Chickamauga
* NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTS AND SONGS
** THE NAVAJO NIGHT CHANT (version by John Bierhorst, based on Washington Matthews’s text)
** The Sacred Mountains
** Dance of the Atsálei, Thunderbirds
** CHIPPEWA SONGS (transcribed and translated by Frances Densmore)
** Song of the Crows
** My Love Has Departed
** Love-Charm Song
** The Approach of the Storm
** The Sioux Women Gather Up Their Wounded
** The Sioux Woman Defends Her Children
** Song of the Captive Sioux Woman
* NATIVE AMERICAN ORATORY
** COCHISE (c. 1812–1874)
*** [I am alone] (version by Henry Stuart Turrill)
** CHARLOT (c. 1831–1900)
*** [He has filled graves with our bones] (from the Missoula Missoulian)
* HENRY JAMES (1843–1916)
** Daisy Miller: A Study
** The Real Thing
** The Beast in the Jungle
** The Figure in the Carpet
* SARAH WINNEMUCCA (c. 1844–?)
** Life Among the Piutes
* JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (1848–1908)
** The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story
** How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox
* EMMA LAZARUS (1849–1887)
** In the Jewish Cemetery at Newport
** 1492
** The New Colossus
* SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849–1909)
** A White Heron
* KATE CHOPIN (1850–1904)
** The Storm
** The Awakening
* MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852–1930)
** A New England Nun
** The Revolt of “Mother”
* ANNA JULIA COOPER (1858–1964)
** A Voice of the South
* BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (1856–1915)
** Up from Slavery
* CHARLES W. CHESNUTT (1858–1932)
** The Goophered Grapevine
** The Wife of His Youth
** The Passing of Grandison
* CHARLES ALEXANDER EASTMAN (OHIYESA) (1858–1939)
** From the Deep Woods to Civilization
* PAULINE HOPKINS (1856–1915)
** Contending Forces
* HAMLIN GARLAND (1860–1940)
** Under the Lion’s Paw
* ABRAHAM CAHAN (1860–1951)
** The Imported Bridegroom
* CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860–1935)
** The Yellow Wall-paper
** Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wall-paper”?
** To the Indifferent Women: A Sestina
** She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping
** Turned
* EDITH WHARTON (1862–1937)
** The Other Two
** Roman Fever
* IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT (1862–1931)
** Mob Rule in New Orleans
* SUI SIN FAR (Edith Maud Eaton) (1865–1914)
** In the Land of the Free
* MARY AUSTIN (1868–1934)
** The Walking Woman
* W. E. B. DU BOIS (1868–1963)
** The Souls of Black Folk
* REALISM AND NATURALISM
** William Dean Howells
*** Henry James, Jr.
*** Novel Writing and Novel Reading
** Henry James
*** The Art of Fiction
** Frank Norris
*** A Plea for Romantic Fiction
*** Zola as a Romantic Writer
** Theodore Dreiser
*** True Art Speaks Plainly
** Jack London
*** What Life Means to Me
* FRANK NORRIS (1870–1902)
** Fantaisie Printanière
* THEODORE DREISER (1871–1945)
** Sister Carrie
* STEPHEN CRANE (1871–1900)
** Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
** The Open Boat
** The Black Riders
** War Is Kind
* JOHN M. OSKISON (1874–1947)
** The Problem of Old Harjo
* JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871–1938)
** Lift E’vry Voice and Sing
** Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
* PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872–1906)
** When Malindy Sings
** An Ante-Bellum Sermon
** Sympathy
** We Wear the Mask
** Frederick Douglass
** Harriet Beecher Stowe
* JACK LONDON (1876–1916)
** The Law of Life
** To Build a Fire
** The Mexican
** The House of Pride
** Mauki
* ZITKALA SA (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876–1938)
** Impressions of an Indian Childhood
** The School Days of an Indian Girl
** An Indian Teacher among Indians
** The Soft-Hearted Sioux
** Why I Am a Pagan
* CORRIDOS
** Gregorio Cortez
** Jacinto Trevino
** Tiempos Amargos
* GHOST DANCE SONGS (translated and notated by James Mooney)
** Songs of the Arapaho
** [Father, have pity on me]
** [When I met him approaching]
** Songs of the Sioux
** [The father says so]
** [Give me my knife]
** [The whole world is coming]
* WOVOKA (c. 1856–1932)
** The Messiah Letter: Cheyenne Version
** The Messiah Letter: Mooney’s Free Rendering
* DEBATES OVER “AMERICANIZATION”
** Frederick Jackson Turner
*** The Significance of the Frontier in American History
** Theodore Roosevelt
*** The Winning of the West
** Helen Hunt Jackson
*** A Century of Dishonor
** José Martí
*** Our America
** Charles W. Chesnutt
*** A Defamer of His Race
** Jane Addams
*** Twenty Years at Hull House
** Anna Julia Cooper
*** One Phase of American Literature

== D. 1914-1945 ==
* BLACK ELK (1863–1950) and JOHN G. NEIHARDT (1881–1973)
** Black Elk Speaks
* EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1868–1950)
** Trainor, the Druggist
** Doc Hill
** Margaret Fuller Slack
** Abel Melveny
** Lucinda Matlock
* EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869–1935)
** Luke Havergal
** Richard Cory
** Miniver Cheevy
** Mr. Flood’s Party
* WILLA CATHER (1873–1947)
** My Ántonia
* AMY LOWELL (1874–1925)
** The Captured Goddess
** Venus Transiens
** Madonna of the Evening Flowers
** September, 1918
** Meeting-House Hill
** Summer Night Piece
** St. Louis
** New Heavens for Old
* GERTRUDE STEIN (1874–1946)
** The Making of Americans
* WORLD WAR I AND ITS AFTERMATH
** Alan Seeger
*** I Have a Rendevous with Death
** John Reed
*** One Solid Month of Liberty
** Ernest Hemingway
*** Letter of August 18, 1918, to His Parents
** E. E. Cummings
*** The Enormous Room
** Jessie Redmon Fauset
*** There Is Confusion
** John Allan Wyeth
*** This Man’s Army: A War in 50-Odd Sonnets
** Gertrude Stein
*** The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
* ROBERT FROST (1874–1963)
** The Pasture
** Mowing
** Mending Wall
** The Death of the Hired Man
** Home Burial
** After Apple-Picking
** The Wood-Pile
** The Road Not Taken
** The Oven Bird
** Birches
** “Out, Out—”
** Fire and Ice
** Nothing Gold Can Stay
** Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
** Departmental
** Desert Places
** Design
** Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
** Provide, Provide
** The Gift Outright
** Directive
** The Figure a Poem Makes
* SUSAN GLASPELL (1876–1948)
** Trifles
* SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876–1941)
** WINESBURG, OHIO
*** Hands
*** Mother
*** Adventure
* CARL SANDBURG (1878–1967)
** Chicago
** Fog
** Cool Tombs
** Grass
* WALLACE STEVENS (1879–1955)
** The Snow Man
** A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
** The Emperor of Ice-Cream
** Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock
** Sunday Morning
** Anecdote of the Jar
** Peter Quince at the Clavier
** Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
** The Death of a Soldier
** The Idea of Order at Key West
** A Postcard from the Volcano
** Study of Two Pears
** Of Modern Poetry
** Asides on the Oboe
** The Plain Sense of Things
* MINA LOY (1882–1966)
** Parturition
** Brancusi’s Golden Bird
** Lunar Baedeker
* WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883–1963)
** The Young Housewife
** Portrait of a Lady
** Queen-Anne’s-Lace
** The Widow’s Lament in Springtime
** Spring and All
** To Elsie
** The Red Wheelbarrow
** The Dead Baby
** The Wind Increases
** Death
** This Is Just to Say
** A Sort of a Song
** The Dance (“In Brueghel’s great picture, The Kermess”)
** Burning the Christmas Greens
** Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
** The Dance (“When the snow falls the flakes”)
* EZRA POUND (1885–1972)
** To Whistler, American
** Portrait d’une Femme
** A Virginal
** A Pact
** The Rest
** In a Station of the Metro
** The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
** Villanelle: The Psychological Hour
** Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts)
** THE CANTOS
*** I (“And then went down to the ship”)
*** XVII (“So that the vines burst from my fingers”)
*** XLV (“With Usura”)
* MODERNIST MANIFESTOS
** F. T. Marinetti
*** The Futurist Manifesto
** Mina Loy
*** Feminist Manifesto
** Ezra Pound
*** A Retrospect
** Willa Cather
*** The Novel Démeublé
** William Carlos Williams
*** Spring and All
** Langston Hughes
*** The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
* H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886–1961)
** Mid-day
** Oread
** Leda
** Fragment 113
** Helen
** The Walls Do Not Fall
* MARIANNE MOORE (1887–1972)
** Poetry
** A Grave
** To a Snail
** What Are Years?
** The Paper Nautilus
** The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing
** In Distrust of Merits
* RAYMOND CHANDLER (1888–1965)
** Red Wind
* T. S. ELIOT (1888–1965)
** The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
** Sweeney among the Nightingales
** Tradition and the Individual Talent
** Gerontion
** The Waste Land
** The Hollow Men
** Journey of the Magi
** FOUR QUARTETS
*** Burnt Norton
* EUGENE O’NEILL (1888–1953)
** Long Day’s Journey into Night
* CLAUDE MCKAY (1889–1948)
** Outcast
** Africa
** The Harlem Dancer
** The Lynching
** Harlem Shadows
** America
** If We Must Die
** Moscow
* KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890–1980)
** Flowering Judas
* ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891–1960)
** The Eatonville Anthology
** How It Feels to Be Colored Me
** The Gilded Six-Bits
* NELLA LARSEN (1891–1964)
** Quicksand
* EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892–1950)
** Recuerdo
** I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently
** [I, being born a woman]
** Apostrophe to Man
** I Too beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex
** The Snow Storm
** I Forgot for a Moment
* E. E. CUMMINGS (1894–1962)
** Thy fingers make early flowers of
** in Just-
** O sweet spontaneous
** Buffalo Bill ‘s
** the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
** “next to of course god america i
** i sing of Olaf glad and big
** somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
** anyone lived in a pretty how town
** my father moved through dooms of love
** pity this busy monster,manunkind
* JEAN TOOMER (1894–1967)
** Cane
* F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896–1940)
** Winter Dreams
** Babylon Revisited
* JOHN DOS PASSOS (1896–1970)
** U.S.A.
** The Big Money
* WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897–1962)
** As I Lay Dying
** Barn Burning
* HART CRANE (1899–1932)
** Chaplinesque
** At Melville’s Tomb
** Voyages
** THE BRIDGE
* ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899–1961)
** The Snows of Kilimanjaro
* THOMAS WOLFE (1900–1938)
** The Lost Boy
* STERLING A. BROWN (1901–1989)
** Mister Samuel and Sam
** He Was a Man
** Master and Man
** Break of Day
** Bitter Fruit of the Tree
* LANGSTON HUGHES (1902–1967)
** The Negro Speaks of Rivers
** Mother to Son
** I, Too
** The Weary Blues
** Mulatto
** Song for a Dark Girl
** Genius Child
** Visitors to the Black Belt
** Note on Commercial Theatre
** Vagabonds
** Democracy
** Refugee in America
** Silhouette
** Theme for English B
* KAY BOYLE (1902–1992)
** The White Horses of Vienna
* JOHN STEINBECK (1902–1968)
** The Leader of the People
* COUNTEE CULLEN (1903–1946)
** Yet Do I Marvel
** Incident
** Heritage
** From the Dark Tower
** Uncle Jim
* RICHARD WRIGHT (1908–1960)
** The Man Who Was Almost a Man
* CARLOS BULOSAN (1911–1956)
** Be American

== E. 1945- ==
* LORINE NIEDECKER (1903–1970)
** Poet’s Work
** [I married]
** My Life by Water
** Lake Superior
** Wild Pigeon
** Watching Dancers on Skates
** [Well, spring overflows the land]
** Radio Talk
** After the Last Dynasty
** Quinnapoxet
** The Wellfleet Whale
* ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905–1989)
** Bearded Oaks
** Audubon
** American Portrait: Old Style
** Mortal Limit
* GEORGE OPPEN (1908–1984)
** Party on Shipboard
** [She lies, hip high]
** The Hills
** Workman
** Psalm
** Of Being Numerous
** Anniversary Poem
* THEODORE ROETHKE (1908–1963)
** Cuttings
** Cuttings (later)
** Root Cellar
** Big Wind
** Weed Puller
** Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze
** Child on Top of a Greenhouse
** My Papa’s Waltz
** Dolor
** Night Crow
** The Lost Son
** The Waking
** Elegy for Jane
** I Knew a Woman
** Wish for a Young Wife
** In a Dark Time
* EUDORA WELTY (1909–2001)
** Petrified Man
* CHARLES OLSON (1910–1970)
** THE MAXIMUS POEMS
*** I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
*** Maximus, to Himself
** [When do poppies bloom]
** Celestial Evening, October 1967
* ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911–1979)
** The Fish
** Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance
** The Bight
** At the Fishhouses
** Questions of Travel
** The Armadillo
** Sestina
** In the Waiting Room
** The Moose
** One Art
* TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911–1983)
** A Streetcar Named Desire
* JOHN CHEEVER (1912–1982)
** The Swimmer
* ROBERT HAYDEN (1913–1980)
** Middle Passage
** Homage to the Empress of the Blues
** Those Winter Sundays
** Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers
* RANDALL JARRELL (1914–1965)
** 90 North
** The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
** Second Air Force
** Next Day
** Well Water
** Thinking of the Lost World
* JOHN BERRYMAN (1914–1972)
** Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
** 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)
** The Magic Barrel
* RALPH ELLISON (1914–1994)
** Invisible Man
** Prologue
** Chapter I [Battle Royal]
* SAUL BELLOW (1915–2005)
** The Adventures of Augie March
* ARTHUR MILLER (1915–2005)
** Death of a Salesman
* ROBERT LOWELL (1917–1977)
** Colloquy in Black Rock
** The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
** Mr. Edwards and the Spider
** My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow
** Memories of West Street and Lepke
** Skunk Hour
** Night Sweat
** For the Union Dead
* GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917–2000)
** A STREET IN BRONZEVILLE
*** kitchenette building
*** the mother
*** a song in the front yard
** The White Troops Had Their Orders But the Negroes Looked Like Men
** The Womanhood
** The Children of the Poor (II)
** We Real Cool
** The Bean Eaters
** A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon
** The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till
** The Blackstone Rangers
** To the Diaspora
* ROBERT DUNCAN (1919–1988)
** Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
** A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar
** Interrupted Forms
* RICHARD WILBUR (b. 1921)
** 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
* JACK KEROUAC (1922–1969)
** Big Sur
* KURT VONNEGUT (b. 1922)
** Slaughterhouse-Five
* GRACE PALEY (b. 1922)
** A Conversation with My Father
* JAMES DICKEY (1923–1997)
** Drowning with Others
** The Heaven of Animals
** Falling
* POSTMODERN MANIFESTOS
** Ronald Sukenick
*** Innovative Fiction/Innovative Criteria
** William H. Gass
*** The Medium of Fiction
** Hunter S. Thompson
*** Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
** Charles Olson
*** Projective Verse
** Frank O’Hara
*** Personism: A Manifesto
** Elizabeth Bishop
*** Letter to Robert Lowell, March 21, 1972
** A. R. Ammons
*** A Poem Is a Walk
** Audre Lorde
*** Poems Are Not Luxuries
* DENISE LEVERTOV (1923–1997)
** To the Snake
** The Jacob’s Ladder
** In Mind
** September 1961
** What Were They Like?
** Caedmon
* JAMES BALDWIN (1924–1987)
** Going to Meet the Man
* FLANNERY O’CONNOR (1925–1964)
** The Life You Save May Be Your Own
** Good Country People
* A. R. AMMONS (1926–2001)
** So I Said I Am Ezra
** Corsons Inlet
** Easter Morning
** Singling & Doubling Together
** From Garbage
* JAMES MERRILL (1926–1995)
** An Urban Convalescence
** The Broken Home
** Family Week at Oracle Ranch
** Dead Center
* ROBERT CREELEY (1926–2005)
** Kore
** I Know a Man
** For Love
** The Messengers
** The Birds
** Fathers
* ALLEN GINSBERG (1926–1997)
** Howl
** Footnote to Howl
** A Supermarket in California
** Sunflower Sutra
** To Aunt Rose
** On Burroughs’ Work
** Ego Confession
* FRANK O’HARA (1926–1966)
** To the Harbormaster
** Why I Am Not a Painter
** A Step Away from Them
** The Day Lady Died
** A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island
* GALWAY KINNELL (b. 1927)
** The Porcupine
** Blackberry Eating
** After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
** Cemetery Angels
** Neverland
* JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927)
** Illustration
** Soonest Mended
** Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
** Myrtle
* W. S. MERWIN (b. 1927)
** 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)
** 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
* PHILIP LEVINE (b. 1928)
** Animals Are Passing from Our Lives
** Detroit Grease Shop Poem
** Starlight
** Fear and Fame
** The Simple Truth
* ANNE SEXTON (1928–1974)
** The Truth the Dead Know
** The Starry Night
** Sylvia’s Death
** Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman
** The Death of the Fathers
* ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929)
** Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
** “I Am in Danger—Sir—”
** A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
** Diving into the Wreck
** Power
** Transcendental Etude
** Shattered Head
* URSULA K. LE GUIN
** Schrödinger’s Cat
** She Unnames Them
* GARY SNYDER (b. 1930)
** Milton by Firelight
** Riprap
** August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer
** Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant Hills. Your Body
** Straight-Creek—Great Burn
** Ripples on the Surface
** Falling from a Height, Holding Hands
* DONALD BARTHELME (1931–1989)
** The Balloon
* TONI MORRISON (b. 1931)
** Recitatif
* SYLVIA PLATH (1932–1963)
** Morning Song
** Lady Lazarus
** Ariel
** Daddy
** Words
** Blackberrying
** Purdah
** The Applicant
** Child
* JOHN UPDIKE (b. 1932)
** Separating
* PHILIP ROTH (b. 1933)
** Defender of the Faith
* AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES) (b. 1934)
** Dutchman
** An Agony. As Now.
** A Poem for Willie Best
** Will They Cry When You’re Gone, You Bet
* N. SCOTT MOMADAY (b. 1934)
** The Way to Rainy Mountain
* GERALD VIZENOR (b. 1934)
** Almost Browne
* AUDRE LORDE (1934–1992)
** Coal
** The Woman Thing
** Black Mother Woman
* CHARLES WRIGHT (b. 1935)
** Him
** Two Stories
** A Journal of the Year of the Ox
** Poem Half in the Manner of Li Ho
** Star Turn II
** North American Bear
* MARY OLIVER (b. 1935)
** The Black Snake
** In Blackwater Woods
** A Visitor
** Poppies
** Hummingbird Pauses at the Trumpet Vine
** Alligator Poem
* LUCILLE CLIFTON (b. 1936)
** miss rosie
** the lost baby poem
** homage to my hips
** wild blessings
** wishes for sons
** blessing the boats
** final note to clark
** note, passed to superman
** the mississippi river enters into the gulf
** moonchild
** the gift
* RUDOLFO A. ANAYA (b. 1937)
** Bless Me, Ultima
* THOMAS PYNCHON (b. 1937)
** Entropy
* RAYMOND CARVER (1938–1988)
** Cathedral
* ISHMAEL REED (b. 1938)
** The Last Days of Louisiana Red
** Neo-HooDoo Manifesto
* CHARLES SIMIC (b. 1938)
** Fork
** Prodigy
** The Devils
** A Book Full of Pictures
** Arriving Celebrities
** In the Street
** Late September
* MICHAEL S. HARPER (b. 1938)
** Dear John, Dear Coltrane
** American History
** Deathwatch
** Martin’s Blues
** “Bird Lives”: Charles Parker in St. Louis
** Nightmare Begins Responsibility
* TONI CADE BAMBARA (1939–1995)
** Medley
* MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (b. 1940)
** Tripmaster Monkey
* FANNY HOWE (b. 1940)
** [I’d speak if I wasn’t afraid of inhaling]
** The Nursery [The baby / was made in a cell]
** Robeson Street [A blight was on the oaks]
** O’Clock [After the girl was grown]
** My Broken Heart
** One Crossed Out [Nobody wants crossed out girls around]
** We vowed to be happy
** When I was a child
** Some Day
** [Come back]
** Bewilderment
* ROBERT PINSKY (b. 1940)
** The Figured Wheel
** The Street
** The Want Bone
** Shirt
** At Pleasure Bay
* SIMON J. ORTIZ (b. 1941)
** Passing through Little Rock
** Earth and Rain, the Plants & Sun
** Vision Shadows
** Poems from the Veterans Hospital
** From Sand Creek
* BILLY COLLINS (b. 1941)
** 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
* MAX APPLE (b. 1941)
** Bridging
* GLORIA ANZALDÚA (1942–2004)
** La conciencia de la Mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness
** How to Tame a Wild Tongue
** El sonavabitche
* SAM SHEPARD (b. 1943)
** True West
* LOUISE GLÜCK (b. 1943)
** The Drowned Children
** Descending Figure
** Appearances
** Vespers
** October
* ALICE WALKER (b. 1944)
** Everyday Use
* ANNIE DILLARD (b. 1945)
** Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
** Seeing
* ANN BEATTIE (b. 1947)
** Weekend
* DAVID MAMET (b. 1947)
** Glengarry Glen Ross
* YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA (b. 1947)
** Facing It
** My Father’s Love Letters
** Slam, Dunk, & Hook
** From Song for My Father [Sometimes you could be]
** Nude Interrogation
** When Dusk Weighs Daybreak
** Jasmine
** Nude Study
* LESLIE MARMON SILKO (b. 1948) 2542
** Lullaby
* ART SPIEGELMAN (b. 1948)
**Maus
* JULIA ALVAREZ (b. 1950)
** ¡Yo!
** The Mother
* JORIE GRAHAM (b. 1950)
** The Geese
** At Luca Signorelli’s Resurrection of the Body
** The Dream of the Unified Field
* JOY HARJO (b. 1951)
** Call It Fear
** White Bear
** Summer Night
** The Flood
** When the World As We Knew It Ended
* RITA DOVE (b. 1952)
** Geometry
** Adolescence—I
** Adolescence—II
** Adolescence—III
** Banneker
** Parsley
** THOMAS AND BEULAH
*** The Event
*** Straw Hat
*** The Zeppelin Factory
*** Dusting
** Poem in Which I Refuse Contemplation
** Missing
** Rosa
** Fox Trot Fridays
* ALBERTO RÍOS (b. 1952)
** Madre Sofía
** Wet Camp
** Taking Away the Name of a Nephew
** Seniors
** Refugio’s Hair
* AMY TAN (b. 1952)
** The Joy Luck Club
** Two Kinds
* SANDRA CISNEROS (b. 1954)
** Woman Hollering Creek
* LOUISE ERDRICH (b. 1954)
** Dear John Wayne
** I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move
** Grief
** Fleur
* LORNA DEE CERVANTES (b. 1954)
** Uncle’s First Rabbit
** For Virginia Chavez
** Visions of Mexico While at a Writing Symposium in Port Townsend, Washington
** The Body as Braille
* CATHY SONG (b. 1955)
** The White Porch
** Beauty and Sadness
** Lost Sister
** Heaven
* LI-YOUNG LEE (b. 1957)
** The Gift
** Persimmons
** Eating Alone
** Eating Together
** Mnemonic
** This Room and Everything in It
* WRITING IN A TIME OF TERROR
** SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
*** The 9/11 Commission Report
*** John Updike
**** [Comment] from The New Yorker
** Kimiko Hahn
*** Her Very Eyes
** Pattiann Rogers
*** Grief
** Brendan Galvin
*** Fragments #1 and #3
** David Ray
*** Six Months After
** Naomi Shihab Nye
*** Shoulders
** C. D. Wright
*** On the Eve of Our Mutually Assured Destruction
** D. Nurkse
*** The Reunification Center
* RICHARD POWERS (b. 1957)
** The Seventh Event
* WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN (b. 1959)
** Red Hands
* SHERMAN ALEXIE (b. 1966)
** At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School
** Pawn Shop
** Sister Fire, Brother Smoke
** Tourists
** 3. Marilyn Monroe
** The Exaggeration of Despair
** Crow Testament
** Do Not Go Gentle
* JHUMPA LAHIRI (b. 1967)
** Sexy

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