The Norton Anthology of American Literature

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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
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