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John Updike A & P
James Wright A Blessing
Paul Roberts A Brief History of English
Bernard Cooper A Clack of Tiny Sparks: Remembrances of a Gay Boyhood
Ernest Hemingway A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Grace Paley A Conversation with My Father
Lucia Perillo A Definition of Terms
Jonathan Swift A Description of the Morning
Steven Weinberg A Designer Universe?
Ronald Takaki A Different Mirror
Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House
Bertrand Russell A Free Man's Worship
Flannery O'Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find
George Orwell A Hanging
Sydney J. Harris A Jerk
William Least Heat-Moon A List of Nothing in Particular
Louise Erdrich A Love Medicine
Lyn Hejinian A Mask of Anger
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal
Stephanie Coontz A Nation of Welfare Families
Walt Whitman A Noiseless Patient Spider
Toi Derricotte A Note on My Son's Face
William Blake A Poison Tree
Sabaa Saleem Tahir A Proposal I Never Thought I'd Consider
Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose
Henry Louis Gates Jr. A Richer American Identity
William Faulkner A Rose for Emily
Howard Gardner A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Allen Ginsberg A Supermarket in California
John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
William Stafford A Way of Writing
Sarah Orne Jewett A White Heron
Eudora Welty A Worn Path
Gretel Ehrlich About Men
Roland G. Fryer Acting White
James Rachels Active and Passive Euthanasia
Chief Seattle Address
Jib Fowles Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals
Benjamin Franklin Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One. To My Friend A. B.
Robert Frost After Apple-Picking
Emily Dickinson After great pain, a formal feeling comes—
Galway Kinnell After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
Laura Kipnis Against Love
Joyce Carol Oates Against Nature
Christopher Clausen Against Work
Susan Sontag AIDS and Its Metaphors
Alice Walker Am I Blue?
Lady Mary Wroth Am I thus conquered?
Claude McKay America
Dinesh D'Souza America the Beautiful: What We're Fighting For
Ishmael Reed America: The Multinational Society
Loretta Schwartz-Nobel America's Wandering Families
William Butler Yeats Among School Children
Ambrose Bierce An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Peter Singer Animal Liberation
Heloisa Sabin Animal Research Saves Human Lives
Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee
Sojourner Truth A'n't I a Woman?
Sophocles Antigone
James Joyce Araby
Richard Rodriguez Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood
Billy Collins Aristotle
Mary Louise Pratt Arts of the Contact Zone
W. H. Auden As I Walked Out One Evening
Ronald Dworkin Assisted Suicide: The Philosopher’s Brief
Lucille Clifton at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989
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Diane Ravitch Back to Basics
Dudley Randall Ballad of Birmingham
Marge Piercy Barbie Doll
William Faulkner Barn Burning
Herman Melville Bartleby, the Scrivener
John Donne Batter my heart, three-personed God
Ralph Ellison Battle Royal
Susan Sontag Beauty
Alice Walker Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death—
Aaron H. Devor Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender
George J. Sanchez Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945
Charles Simic Begotten of the Spleen
Jessica Mitford Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain
Paul Theroux Being a Man
Peter F. Drucker Beyond the Information Revolution
Robert Frost Birches
Beverly Gross Bitch
Geoffrey Nunberg Blogging in Global Lunchroom
Horace Miner Body Ritual among the Nacirema
Richard B. Mazess and Warren Mather Bone Mineral Content of North Alaskan Eskimos
Wayne C. Booth Boring from Within: The Art of the Freshman Essay
Richard A. Friedman Born to Be Happy
Susan Allen Toth Boyfriends
James B. Twitchell But First, a Word from Our Sponsor
Stephen Vincent Benét By the Waters of Babylon
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Sherman Alexie Capital Punishment
James Q. Wilson Cars and Their Enemies
Judith Ortiz Cofer Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
Raymond Carver Cathedral
Richard Jones Cathedral
Maya Angelou Champion of the World
Scott McCloud Character Design
James Welch Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat
Anne Sexton Cinderella
Nawal El Saadawi Circumcision of Girls
Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience
Chinua Achebe Civil Peace
Edward Said Clashing Civilizations?
William Zinsser Clutter
Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics
Judith Ortiz Cofer Cold as Heaven
William Zinsser College Pressures
Malcolm X Coming to an Awareness of Language
Ronnie Dugger Corporate Takeover of the Media
Jane Jacobs Credentialing vs. Educating
Plato Crito
Walt Whitman Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Crossing the Bar
Barbara Ehrenreich Cultural Baggage
Esther Dyson Cyberspace for All
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Sylvia Plath Daddy
Timothy E. Quill Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making
Edward I. Koch Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life
John Donne Death Be Not Proud
Jean Valentine December 21st
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Clifford Geertz Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
Linda Chavez Demystifying Multiculturalism
Robert Frost Design
Kate Chopin Désirée's Baby
Peter Elbow Desperation Writing
Seamus Heaney Digging
Ellen Ullman Dining with Robots
Wallace Stevens Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night
Stephen Crane Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
Morgan Spurlock Do You Want Lies with That?
Michael J. Bamshad and Steve E. Olson Does Race Exist?
Matthew Arnold Dover Beach
Robert Bly Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter
Gore Vidal Drugs
Wilfred Owen Dulce et Decorum Est
Howard Zinn Dying for the Government
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George Herbert Easter-wings
Li-Young Lee Eating Alone
Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Tricia Capistrano Emil's Big Chance Leaves Me Uneasy
Bart Edelman English 101
Al Gore Environmentalism of the Spirit
James Joyce Eveline
Alice Walker Everyday Use
Flannery O'Connor Everything That Rises Must Converge
Stephen Jay Gould Evolution as Fact and Theory
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Rachel Carson Fable for Tomorrow
Yusef Komunyakaa Facing It
Jimmy Santiago Baca Family Ties
Denise Levertov February Evening in New York
Dylan Thomas Fern Hill
Margaret Visser Fingers
Robert Frost Fire and Ice
Samuel Hazo For Fawzi in Jerusalem
Michael Dorris For Indians, No Thanksgiving
Noel Perrin Forever Virgin: The American View of America
Donald Hall Four Ways of Reading
Barbara Lawrence Four-Letter Words Can Hurt You
Peter Elbow Freewriting
Mary Wollstonecraft From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Alfie Kohn From Degrading to De-grading
Michael Pollan From Food to Nutrients
Christopher Smart From Jubilate Agno
Gunther Kress From Literacy in the New Media Age
Barbara Mellix From Outside, In
Jane Kenyon From Room to Room
Min-Zhan Lu From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle
Walt Whitman From Song of Myself
Susan Howe From Speeches at the Barriers
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea From The Introduction
Janet Jacobs From the Profane to the Sacred: Ritual and Mourning at Sites of Terror and Violence
Ray A. Young Bear From the Spotted Night
John Taylor Gatto From Why Schools Don't Educate
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Frost at Midnight
Mark Halliday Functional Poem
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H. D. [Hilda Doolittle] Garden
Lisa Schiffren Gay Marriage: An Oxymoron
Sam Schulman Gay Marriage—and Marriage
Jamaica Kincaid Girl
Cathy Song Girl Powdering Her Neck
Anthony Giddens Globalisation
Thomas L. Friedman Globalization: The Super-Story
Gerard Manley Hopkins God's Grandeur
Flannery O'Connor Good Country People
Maya Angelou Graduation
David Mura Grandfather-in-Law
Nellie Wong Grandmother's Song
Bruce Catton Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts
Frank O'Connor Guests of the Nation
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William James Habit
William Shakespeare Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Margaret Atwood Happy Endings
Etheridge Knight Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
Langston Hughes Harlem
Richard Delgado Hate Cannot Be Tolerated
Linda Hogan Hearing Voices
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
John Berryman Henry's Confession
Andrew Sullivan Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage
Philip Larkin High Windows
Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants
Gary Snyder Hitch Haiku
Robert Frost Home Burial
Wendell Berry Home of the Free
Anna Quindlen Homeless
Robert Browning Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
Firoozeh Dumas Hot Dogs and Wild Geese
Edward Taylor Housewifery
Sherry Turkle How Computers Change the Way We Think
S. I. Hayakawa How Dictionaries Are Made
Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
Julia Alvarez How I Learned to Sweep
Zora Neale Hurston How It Feels to Be Colored Me
John Milton How Soon Hath Time
John Holt How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading
Lorrie Moore How to Become a Writer
Mary Roach How to Know If You're Dead
Darrell Huff How to Lie with Statistics
Paul Roberts How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words
Gloria Anzaldúa How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Aaron Copland How We Listen to Music
Bill Bryson How You Became You
Kalle Lasn Hype
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Agha Shahid Ali I Dream It Is Afternoon When I Return to Delhi
Emily Dickinson I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
Martin Luther King Jr. I Have a Dream
Emily Dickinson I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—
Jennifer 8. Lee I Think, Therefore IM
William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud
Judy Brady I Want a Wife
Julia Alvarez I Want to Be Miss America
James Baldwin If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
Geeta Kothari If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?
Howard S. Becker If You Want to Be a Scholar
Shelby Steele I'm Black, You're White, Who's Innocent?
Bernard Lewis I'm Right, You're Wrong, Go to Hell
Alejandro Portes and Ruben G. Rumbaut Immigrant America: A Portrait
Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro
Michael Pollan In Defense of Food
Dave Barry In Depth, but Shallowly
Geoffrey Hill In Memory of Jane Fraser
Pico Iyer In Praise of the Humble Comma
Alice Walker In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Bob Holmes In the Blink of an Eye
Amy Tan In the Canon for All the Wrong Reasons
Countee Cullen Incident
Jane Tompkins "Indians": Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History
Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies
Jayne Cortez Into This Time
John Ciardi Is Everybody Happy?
Edward O. Wilson Is Humanity Suicidal?
Clinton R. Van Zandt It Should Be Permissible to Torture Suspected Terrorists to Gather Information
Vincent Iacopino It Should Not Be Permitted to Torture Suspected Terrorists to Gather Information
Bob Greene It Took This Night to Make Us Know
Calvin Trillin It's Just Too Late
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Bruno Bettelheim Joey: A "Mechanical Boy"
Brian Doyle Joyas Voladoras
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William Severini Kowinski Kids in the Mall: Growing up Controlled
John McMurtry Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw!
Andre Dubus Killings
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan
Garrett Kaoru Hongo Kubota
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John Keats La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Roald Dahl Lamb to the Slaughter
Leslie Marmon Silko Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective
Judith Ortiz Cofer Latin Women Pray
Robert Ornstein and Richard F. Thompson Learning and Brain Growth
Perri Klass Learning the Language
Malcolm X Learning to Read
Frederick Douglass Learning to Read and Write
Joel Seligman Learning to Think Like a Lawyer
William Butler Yeats Leda and the Swan
Susan Brownmiller Let's Put Pornography Back in the Closet
Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail
Sigmund Freud Libidinal Types
Garrett Hardin Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor
William Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
C. H. Knoblauch Literacy and the Politics of Education
Molly Ivins Living Wage Fight Goes On
William Blake London
Anonymous Lord Randal
George Herbert Love (III)
Nawal El Saadawi Love and Sex in the Life of the Arab
Richard Wilbur Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
John Frederick Nims Love Poem
A. E. Housman Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Sir Philip Sidney Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show
John Milton Lycidas
James Wright Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
Aristophanes Lysistrata
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Holly Brubach Mail-Order America
George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara
Anne Waldman Makeup on Empty Space
Lynne Luciano Male Body Image in America
Felice N. Schwartz Management Women and the New Facts of Life
Charles Wright March Journal
George Orwell Marrakech
Lindsy Van Gelder Marriage as a Restricted Club
Joan Didion Marrying Absurd
Jamey Lionette Mass Production of Food Is Ruining Our Health
Linda Kulman Materialism: Our Consuming Interest
David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day
Taylor Clark Meatless Like Me
Natalie Angier Men, Women, Sex, and Darwin
Robert Frost Mending Wall
Jack Gilbert Michiko Dead
Amy Tan Mother Tongue
Betty Rollin Motherhood: Who Needs It?
Robert Morgan Mountain Bride
Emily Dickinson Much Madness is divinest Sense—
W. H. Auden Musée des Beaux Arts
Paul M. Barrett Muslims in America
Stephen King My Creature from the Black Lagoon
Barry Lopez My Horse
Robert Browning My Last Duchess
Theodore Roethke My Papa's Waltz
Jhumpa Lahiri My Two Lives
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Henry Reed Naming of Parts
Alberto Ríos Nani
Reg Weaver NCLB's Excessive Reliance on Testing Is Unrealistic, Arbitrary, and Frequently Unfair
Suzanne Britt Neat People vs. Sloppy People
Robert Frost Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
Anne Fadiman Never Do That to a Book
Susan Bordo Never Just Pictures
Michael S. Harper Nightmare Begins Responsibility
Naomi Klein No Logo
John Donne No Man Is an Island
Maxine Hong Kingston No Name Woman
William Faulkner Nobel Prize Award Speech
Stevie Smith Not Waving but Drowning
Susan Jacoby Notes from a Free-Speech Junkie
James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son
Paul Fussell Notes on Class
Lewis Thomas Notes on Punctuation
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John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats Ode to a Nightingale
Michael J. Arlen Ode to Thanksgiving
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind
William Wordsworth Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Sophocles Oedipus Rex
Francis Bacon Of Studies
Nancy Mairs On Being a Cripple
Shelby Steele On Being Black and Middle Class
Phillis Wheatley On Being Brought from Africa to America
Ralph Ellison On Being the Target of Discrimination
Allison Joseph On Being Told I Don't Speak Like a Black Person
Cornel West On Black Fathering
Barbara Lazear Ascher On Compassion
Wislawa Szymborska On Death, without Exaggeration
Lars Eighner On Dumpster Diving
Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux On Friendship
Joan Didion On Going Home
Aphra Behn On Her Loving Two Equally
Joan Didion On Keeping a Notebook
Ben Jonson On My First Son
Lewis Thomas On Natural Death
Charles R. Lawrence III On Racist Speech
Samuel Johnson On Self-Love and Indolence
William Hazlitt On the Pleasure of Hating
E. B. White Once More to the Lake
Elizabeth Bishop One Art
John Ashbery One Coat of Paint
Edmund Spenser One day I wrote her name upon the strand
Germaine Greer One Man's Mutilation Is Another Man's Beautification
Shelly Branch One Term Says It All: "Shut Up!"
Natalie Angier One Thing They Aren't: Maternal
Sandra Cisneros Only Daughter
Solomon E. Asch Opinions and Social Pressure
William Shakespeare Othello, the Moor of Venice
Emily Prager Our Barbies, Ourselves
Peter Jamison Out of the Wild
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias
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Louise Glück Parable of Flight
Willa Cather Paul's Case
David Brooks People Like Us
Philip Gefter Photographic Icons: Fact, Fiction, or Metaphor?
Bill McKibben Pie in the Sky
Gerard Manley Hopkins Pied Beauty
Conrad Hilberry Player Piano
William Saletan Please Don't Feed the People
Marianne Moore Poetry
George Orwell Politics and the English Language
Robert Browning Porphyria’s Lover
Sherman Alexie Postcards to Columbus
Ray González Praise the Tortilla, Praise the Menudo, Praise the Chorizo
Gail Sheehy Predictable Crises of Adulthood
T. S. Eliot Preludes
Victor Hernández Cruz Problems with Hurricanes
Virginia Woolf Professions for Women
Cindy C. Combs Profile of a Terrorist
Milton Friedman Prohibition and Drugs
Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke Psalm 100 Jubilate Deo
Seamus Heaney Punishment
Ellen Willis Putting Women Back into the Abortion Debate
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Nancy Willard Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him
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Michael S. Dukakis and Daniel J. B. Mitchell Raise Wages, Not Walls
Nathaniel Hawthorne Rappaccini's Daughter
Emily Hegarty Really Cool: Authenticity, Identity, and Popular Music
Hayden Carruth Regarding Chainsaws
Isra Javed Bhatty Reppin' Islam
Frederick Douglass Resurrection
Jim Barnes Return to La Plata, Missouri
Michael Patrick MacDonald Returning to Southie
Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory
Emily Brontë Riches I hold in light esteem
Eve M. Tai Roadtrip to Chinatown
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William Butler Yeats Sailing to Byzantium
Langston Hughes Salvation
Derek Walcott Sea Grapes
Annie Dillard Seeing
Dave Eggers Serve or Fail
Barbara Ehrenreich Serving in Florida
Gloria Steinem Sex, Lies, and Advertising
Joan Morgan Sex, Lies, and Videos
Alleen Pace Nilsen Sexism in English: Embodiment and Language
Virginia Woolf Shakespeare's Sister
Joy Harjo She Had Some Horses
George Gordon, Lord Byron She Walks in Beauty
Robert Pinsky Shirt
Anne Lamott Shitty First Drafts
George Orwell Shooting an Elephant
William J. Bennett Should Drugs Be Legalized?
Patrick N. Allitt Should Undergraduates Specialize?
Michael Drayton Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part
Anonymous Sir Patrick Spens
Robert Lowell Skunk Hour
Quincy Troupe Snake-Back Solo 2
Sophronia Liu So Tsi-Fai
Milton Friedman Social Responsibility of Business and Labor
Jared Diamond Soft Sciences Are Often Harder Than Hard Sciences
Alexis de Tocqueville Some Reflections on American Manners
Nathan Glazer Some Very Modest Proposals for the Improvement of American Education
Malcolm Gladwell Something Borrowed
Christina Rossetti Song
Edmund Waller Song
William Shakespeare Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare Sonnet 73
William Shakespeare Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare Sonnet 130
James Baldwin Sonny's Blues
Simon J. Ortiz Speaking
Gina Kolata Spinning
William Carlos Williams Spring and All
Gerard Manley Hopkins Spring and Fall
Ben Jonson Still to be Neat
Mike Males Stop Blaming Kids and TV
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Paul Crenshaw Storm Country
James Baldwin Stranger in the Village
Curtis Chang Streets of Gold: The Myth of the Model Minority
Emily Dickinson Success is counted sweetest
Anne Carson Sumptuous Destitution
Todd Gitlin Supersaturation, or, The Media Torrent and Disposable Feeling
John Kessler Sushi USA: The Japanese Paradigm
Gertrude Stein Susie Asado
Zora Neale Hurston Sweat
William Branigin Sweatshops Are Back
Wang Ping Syntax
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. Talking Black
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tears, Idle Tears
Neil Postman and Steve Powers Television News: The Language of Pictures
Marie Winn Television: The Plug-In Drug
A. E. Housman "Terence, this is stupid stuff"
Rod Paige Testing Has Raised Students' Expectations, and Progress in Learning Is Evident Nationwide
Suzanne Britt That Lean and Hungry Look
Richard Rodriguez The Achievement of Desire
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Jeremy Rifkin The Age of Simulation
Plato The Allegory of the Cave
David Hricik The American Legal System
Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Scholar
Noel Perrin The Androgynous Man
Edward T. Hall The Arab World
Paulo Freire The “Banking” Concept of Education
Henry David Thoreau The Battle of the Ants
Gwendolyn Brooks The Bean Eaters
Galway Kinnell The Bear
Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth
Sue Hubbell The Beekeeper
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Birthmark
Paul Fussell The Boy Scout Handbook
Michael Levin The Case for Torture
Edgar Allan Poe The Cask of Amontillado
Margaret Sanger The Cause of War
Rita Williams The Centerpiece
Yusuf Idris The Chair Carrier
Roald Hoffman The Chemist
Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard
William Blake The Chimney Sweeper
John Steinbeck The Chrysanthemums
Fan Shen The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition
George Herbert The Collar
Carolyn Forché The Colonel
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels The Communist Manifesto
Thomas Hardy The Convergence of the Twain
Edward Hoagland The Courage of Turtles
Anton Chekhov The Darling
Frank O'Hara The Day Lady Died
Virginia Woolf The Death of the Moth
David Bruck The Death Penalty
Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence
John Updike The Disposable Rocket
William Deresiewicz The Dispossessed
Emily Martin The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male–Female Roles
Eugene O'Neill The Emperor Jones
John Keats The Eve of St. Agnes
Grace Suh The Eye of the Beholder
Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson The FDR Memorial: Who Speaks from the Wheelchair?
Margaret Atwood The Female Body
Elizabeth Bishop The Fish
John Donne The Flea
Gordon Allport The Formation of In-Groups
George Oppen The Forms of Love
Francis Bacon The Four Idols
Audre Lorde The Fourth of July
Laura Fraser The French Paradox
William Blake The Garden of Love
Gilbert Highet The Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address
O. Henry The Gift of the Magi
Anita Endrezze The Girl Who Loved the Sky
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Gary Soto The Grandfather
James E. McWilliams The Green Monster
Joseph Epstein The Green-Eyed Monster
Tom Andrews The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle
Kenneth Koch The History of Jazz
Linda Hogan The History of Red
D. H. Lawrence The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street
Jonathan Kozol The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society
Lewis Thomas The Iks
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Philip Freneau The Indian Burying Ground
Lee Ann Fisher Baron The Influence of "Junk Science" and the Role of Science Education
Scott Russell Sanders The Inheritance of Tools
Stephen Carter The Insufficiency of Honesty
Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams
Michael Snider The Intimacy of Blogs
Katherine Anne Porter The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott
Anton Chekhov The Lady with the Dog
William Blake The Lamb
Aldo Leopold The Land Ethic
Toni Cade Bambara The Lesson
Donella Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and Jorgen Randers The Limits to Growth
William Blake The Little Black Boy
Sherman Alexie The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Shirley Jackson The Lottery
T. S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Donald M. Murray The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts
Thomas Hardy The Man He Killed
Richard Wright The Man Who Was Almost a Man
Bharati Mukherjee The Management of Grief
Gloria Naylor The Meanings of a Word
Jack Shaheen The Media's Image of Arabs
W. W. Jacobs The Monkey's Paw
Michael Novak The Moral Heart of Capitalism
Richard Connell The Most Dangerous Game
Gwendolyn Brooks The Mother
Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus
Judith Ortiz Cofer The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria
Linda Simon The Naked Source
Guy de Maupassant The Necklace
Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Deb Aronson The Nurture of Nature
Sir Walter Raleigh The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Rachel Carson The Obligation to Endure
Helen Vendler The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar
Stephen Crane The Open Boat
Saki The Open Window
Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Peter Farb and George Armelagos The Patterns of Eating
H. L. Mencken The Penalty of Death
Stanley Milgram The Perils of Obedience
August Wilson The Piano Lesson
John McPhee The Pine Barrens
Camille Paglia The Pitfalls of Plastic Surgery
Russell Baker The Plot against People
Larry Levis The Poem You Asked For
David Young The Portable Earth-Lamp
Stephen Chapman The Prisoner's Dilemma
Michael Eric Dyson The Public Obligations of Intellectuals
George Herbert The Pulley
Niccolò Machiavelli The Qualities of the Prince
Tony Earley The Quare Gene
Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock
Edgar Allan Poe The Raven
Jacob Bronowski The Reach of Imagination
Paul T. Barber The Real Vampire
Louise Erdrich The Red Convertible
William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow
Tom Wolfe The Right Stuff
Ezra Pound The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
Robert Frost The Road Not Taken
D. H. Lawrence The Rocking-Horse Winner
Bernard Lewis The Roots of Muslim Rage
Thomas S. Kuhn The Route to Normal Science
Thomas Hardy The Ruined Maid
Martín Espada The Saint Vincent de Paul Food Pantry Stomp
Edward Albee The Sandbox
John McPhee The Search for Marvin Gardens
William Butler Yeats The Second Coming
James Thurber The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Thomas H. Benton The Seven Deadly Sins of Students
William Blake The Sick Rose
Peter Singer The Singer Solution to World Poverty
Naomi Shihab Nye The Small Vases from Hebron
Emily Dickinson The Soul selects her own Society—
Jacob Neusner The Speech the Graduates Didn't Hear
Alexander Petrunkevitch The Spider and the Wasp
Charles Fishman The Squeeze
Philip Zimbardo The Stanford Prison Experiment
Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour
Elizabeth Wong The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl
Bertrand Russell The Study of Mathematics
Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart
Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried
Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point
Robert Duncan The Torso, Passages 18
Judith Viorst The Truth about Lying
William Blake The Tyger
Jamaica Kincaid The Ugly Tourist
William Carlos Williams The Use of Force
Marjane Satrapi The Veil
Francine Prose The Wages of Sin
N. Scott Momaday The Way to Rainy Mountain
Virgil Suárez The Ways of Guilt
Stephanie Ericsson The Ways We Lie
James Tate The Wheelchair Butterfly
Mary Lavin The Widow's Son
Gerard Manley Hopkins The Windhover
Randall Jarrell The Woman at the Washington Zoo
Margaret Atwood The Woman Who Could Not Live with Her Faulty Heart
Michiko Kakutani The Word Police
William Wordsworth The world is too much with us
William Lutz The World of Doublespeak
Edward O. Wilson The Writing Life
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper
Deborah Tannen There Is No Unmarked Woman
Sir Thomas Wyatt They flee from me
Martin Gansberg Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police
William Carlos Williams This Is Just to Say
Timothy Liu Thoreau
Helen Keller Three Days to See
Mark Doty Tiara
Robert Creeley Time
Dalton Conley Tip Jars and the New Economy
A. E. Housman To an Athlete Dying Young
Naomi Shihab Nye To Any Would-Be Terrorists
John Keats To Autumn
Jack London To Build a Fire
Edgar Allan Poe To Helen
Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress
Richard Lovelace To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
Anne Bradstreet To My Dear and Loving Husband
Robert Herrick To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Commonweal Too Many Abortions
Phyllis Rose Tools of Torture: An Essay on Beauty and Pain
Thylias Moss Tornados
Philip B. Heymann Torture Should Not Be Authorized
William Stafford Traveling through the Dark
Susan Glaspell Trifles
Kiku Adatto Trigger-Happy Birthday
Sandra Steingraber Tune of the Tuna Fish
Marilyn Chin Turtle Soup
Amy Tan Two Kinds
Mark Twain Two Ways of Seeing a River
Bharati Mukherjee Two Ways to Belong in America
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ulysses
Mark Twain Uncle John's Farm
Scott Russell Sanders Under the Influence: Paying the Price of My Father's Booze
Scott McCloud Understanding Comics
Charles Darwin Understanding Natural Selection
James Thurber University Days
David Gelernter Unplugged: The Myth of Computers in the Classroom
Christina Rossetti Up-Hill
Robert Herrick Upon Julia's Clothes
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Wendy Kaminer Virtual Rape
Lennard J. Davis Visualizing the Disabled Body
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Brooke A. Knight Watch Me! Webcams and the Public Exposure of Private Lives
John Berger Ways of Seeing
Diane Ackerman We Are All a Part of Nature
Edwidge Danticat We Are Ugly, but We Are Here
C. S. Lewis We Have No "Right to Happiness"
Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool
Paul Laurence Dunbar We Wear the Mask
Jeremy Seabrook What Are "Class" and "Inequality"?
Patrick Vala-Haynes What Does Online Shopping Cost Us?
Heather McHugh What He Thought
Theodore R. Sizer What High School Is
E. M. Forster What I Believe
Jo Goodwin Parker What Is Poverty?
William J. Bennett What Really Ails America
Sherman Alexie What Sacagawea Means to Me
Luc Sante What Secrets Tell
Eric Schlosser What We Eat
Raymond Carver What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Philip Levine What Work Is
Vicki Hearne What's Wrong with Animal Rights?
John Milton When I consider how my light is spent
John Keats When I have fears that I may cease to be
Walt Whitman When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Queen Elizabeth I When I was fair and young
Walt Whitman When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Thomas Campion When thou must home
Adrienne Rich When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision
Kimiko Hahn When You Leave
Joyce Carol Oates Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Paula Gunn Allen Where I Come From Is Like This
Henry David Thoreau Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Casey Miller and Kate Swift Who's in Charge of the English Language?
Beverly Daniel Tatum Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Katha Pollitt Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls
William F. Buckley Jr. Why Don't We Complain?
Richard Garcia Why I Left the Church
C. P. Ellis Why I Quit the Klan
Laura Fraser Why I Stopped Being a Vegetarian
George Orwell Why I Write
Diane Ackerman Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall
Matt Ridley Why Should Males Exist?
James H. Jeans Why the Sky Looks Blue
Stephen King Why We Crave Horror Movies
Peggy Carlson Why We Don't Need Animal Experimentation
Gloria Steinem Why Young Women Are More Conservative
Edna St. Vincent Millay Wild Swans
Wallace Stegner Wilderness Letter
F. Scott Fitzgerald Winter Dreams
Karen Kornbluh Win-Win Flexibility
Bessie Head Woman from America
Louise Bogan Women
Ariel Levy Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
K. C. Cole Women in Science
Amitai Etzioni Working at McDonald's
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Garrett Kaoru Hongo Yellow Light
W. S. Merwin Yesterday
Alice Fulton You Can't Rhumboogie in a Ball and Chain
Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown
Daniel Lazare Your Constitution Is Killing You
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Naguib Mahfouz Zaabalawi
Paul Zimmer Zimmer Imagines Heaven
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