1. Monday, October 5: Father Poems

"My Papa's Waltz" Ted Roethke -- "Those Winter Sundays" Robert Hayden -- "Daddy" Sylvia Plath

2. Wednesday, October 7: Love Poems

Collection of 3 Poems -- "How Do I love Thee" Elizabeth Barrett Browning-- "My Mistress' Eyes" William Shakespeare

3. Monday, October 12: Time Poems

"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" Robert Herrick -- " To His Coy Mistress" Andrew Marvell -- "Indian Summer" Dorothy Parker

4. Wednesday, October 14: War Poems

"Dulce et Decorum Est" -- "Anthem for Doomed Youth" -- "Naming of Parts" -- "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"

5. Monday, October 19: Robert Frost Poems

"The Road Not Taken" -- "Nothing Gold Can Stay" -- "Mending Wall" -- "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

6. Wednesday, October 21: Sherman Alexie Poems

Collection of Sherman Alexie Poems

7. Friday, October 23: Imagry Poems

"Winter Moon" -- "Gypsy Melodies" -- "The Great Figure" -- "The Red Wheelbarrow" -- "This is Just to Say" -- "In a Station of the Metro" -- "The Piercing Chill I Feel" -- "Tired Sex"

8. Monday, October 26: Jane Kenyon Poems

Selected Jane Kenyon Poems

9. Wednesday, October 28: Donald Hall Poems

Selected Donald Hall Poems

10. Friday, October 30: Billy Collins Poems

Selected Billy Collins Poems

Literary Criticism Essay Readings

Jack London -- "To Build a Fire"

F. Scott Fitzgerald -- "Babylon Revisited"

D. H. Lawrence -- "The Rocking Horse Winner"

William Faulkner -- "That Evening Sun"