Introduction: The education of a poet
"The author to her book" / Anne Bradstreet
"To S. M. a young African painter, on seeing his works" / Phillis Wheatley
"The Jewish cemetery at Newport" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Out of the cradle endlessly rocking" / Walt Whitman
"Shiloh" / Herman Melville
#479 ["Because I could not stop for death"] / Emily Dickinson
"The new colossus" / Emma Lazarus
"Eros turannos" / Edwin Arlington Robinson
"Madonna of the evening flowers" / Amy Lowell
"The most of it" / Robert Frost
"Sunday morning" / Wallace Stevens
from Spring and All, I ["By the road to the contagious hospital"] / William Carlos Williams
"The river-merchant's wife: a letter" / Ezra Pound
"The steeple-jack" / Marianne Moore
"The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" / T.S. Eliot
"To Brooklyn Bridge" / Hart Crane
"Harlem" / Langston Hughes
"Southern Road" / Sterling A. Brown
"Cuttings" and "Cuttings (later)" / Theodore Roethke
"In the waiting room" / Elizabeth Bishop
"Cross road blues" [Take 2] / Robert Johnson
"Middle passage" / Robert Hayden
"St. Roach" / Muriel Rukeyser
"Farewell in Welfare Island" / Julia de Burgos
"A Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon" / Gwendolyn Brooks
"More light! More light!" / Anthony Hecht
"O taste and see" / Denise Levertov
"The day lady died" / Frank O'Hara
"America" / Allen Ginsberg
"Soonest mended" / John Ashbery
"Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio" / James Wright
"To Cipriano, in the wind" / Philip Levine
"XIII (Dedications" [from "An atlas of the difficult world"] / Adrienne Rich
["won't you celebrate with me"] / Lucille Clifton
"My mother's lips" / C. K. Williams
"Dear John, Dear Coltrane" / Michael S. Harper
"Retreating wind" / Louise Glück
"Ancestral graves, Kahuku" / Garrett Hongo
"Rabbit is up to tricks" / Joy Harjo.
