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Adams, Abigail Letter to her Daughter From the New White House

Aden, W.H. The Unknown Citizen

Baldwin, James The Rockpile

Bierce, Ambrose An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Broadstreet, Anne To My Dear and Loving Husband

Brooks, Gwendolyn The Explorer

Mary Chestnut from Mary Chestnut's Civil War

  Cisneros, Sandra Straw into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday

  Chang, Diana  Most Satisfied By Snow

Collier, Eugenia Marigolds

Crane, Stephen An Episode of War

  de Crèvecoeur, Michel-Guillaume Jean from Letters From an American Farmer

Cooper, George Willie Has Gone to War

Cummings, E.E. Old Age Sticks, Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town

Douglass, Fredrick from My Bondage and My Freedom

  Dove, Rita For the Love of Books

  Earley, Tony Aliceville

Edwards, Jonathon from Sinners  in the Hands of an Angry God

Eliot, T.S.The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Erdrich, Louise Bidwell Ghost

  Espada, Martín Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper

Faulkner, William A Rose for Emily, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott Winter Dreams

Foster, Stephen Willie Has Gone to War

Franklin, Benjamin Speech in the Convention from The Autobiography from Poor Richard's Almanack

Frazier, Ian Acme v. Coyote

Frost, Robert Birches, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Mending Wall, "Out, Out--" , The Girt Outright, Acquainted with the Night

Hayden, Robert Frederick Douglass, Runagate Runagate

Henry, Patrick Speech in the Virginia Convention

Hersey, John from Hiroshima

  Hongo, Garett What For

Kennedy, John F. Inaugural Address

Kingston, Maxine Hong from The Woman Warrior

  Komunyakaa, Yusef Camouflaging the Chimera

Lee, Robert E. Letter to His Son

Lincoln, Abraham The Gettysburg Address, Second Inaugural Address, Emancipation Proclamation

Malamud, Bdernard The First Seven Years

MacLeish, Archibald Ars Poetica

  McCullers, Carson Loneliness...An American Malady

  McElroy, Collen For My Children

Miller, Arthur The Crucible

Momaday, N Scott from The Names

Nye, Naomi Shihab Mint Snowball

O'Brien, Tim Ambush

O'Connor, Flannery The Life You Save May Be Your Own

Ortiz, Simon J. Hunger in New York City

  Plath, Sylvia The Mirror

Porter, Kathrine Anne The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

Pound, Ezra A Few Don'ts, The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter. In a Station of the Metro

  Jarrel, Randell Losses, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

  Rich, Adrienne, In a Classroom

Roethke, Theodore The Light Comes Brighter

Sandburg, Carl Chicago, Grass

Safire, William Onomatopoeia

Stafford, William Traveling Through the Dark

Stevens, Wallace Of Modern Poetry Anecdote of the Jar

  Tan, Amy, Mother Tongue 

Thurber, James The Night the Ghost Got In

  Tyler, Anne Average Wave in Unprotected Waters

Walker, Alice Everyday Use

Warren, Robert Penn Gold Glade

Welty, Eudora A Worn Path

Wheatley, Phillis An Hymn to the Evening, To His Excellency, General Washington

Williams, William Carlos The Red Wheelbarrow, The Great Figure, This is Just to Say

White, E.B. from Here is New York

Wolfe, Thomas The Far and the Near

  Wordsworth, William I Wander Lonely as a Cloud