Essential reading (poems, essays, articles):
The Glass Essay, Anne Carson (x)
Witch Burning, Sylvia Plath (x)
Lead, Mary Oliver (x)
Her Kind, Anne Sexton (x)
The End of Poetry, Ada Limon (x)
Please Follow Me, Sophie Calle & Jean Baudrillard (x)
Winter Hours, Mary Oliver (x)
Coming to Writing, Hélène Cixous (x)
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, Audre Lorde (x)
The Semiotics of Sex, Jeanette Winterson (x)
Twenty One Love Poems VIII, Adrienne Rich (x)
Burning the Old Year, Naomi Shihab Nye (x)
The Pain Scale, Eula Biss (x)
Eleven, Sandra Cisneros (x)
After Life, Joan Didion (x)
October, Mary Oliver (x)
Nothing Gold Can Stay, Robert Frost (x)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, Jonas Mekas (x)
Variations on the Right to Remain Silent, Anne Carson (x)
Morning in the Burned House, Margaret Atwood (x)
The Sentence, Anna Akhmatova (x)
Meditations in an Emergency, Cameron Awkward-Rich (x)
The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison (x)
Taking Care, Callista Buchen (x)
Subtotals, Gregory Burnham (x)
How To Be Polite, Paul Ford (x)
Looking at War, Susan Sontag (x)
On Keeping a Notebook, Joan Didion (x)
Psalm, Dorianne Laux (x)
Inflammatory Essays, Jenny Holzer (x)
this excerpt from Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden (x)
Elegy for My Sadness, Chen Chen (x)
When You Are Old, WB Yeats (x)
Invitation, Mary Oliver (x)
Having a Coke with You, Frank O’Hara (x)
Small Kindnesses, Danusha Lameris (x)
The Things Is, Ellen Bass (x)
Variation on the Word Sleep, Margaret Atwood (x)
Poem, Langston Hughes (x)
