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)
