storytime … poetry & fiction

Elizabeth Bishop, “Crusoe in England” and “At the Fishhouses”

Jo Carson, “[Now you know what you’re in for]”

Raymond Carver, seven poems: “In a Marine Light near Sequim, Washington,” “The Meadow,” “Venice,” “The Fishing Pole of the Drowned Man,” “Cadillacs and Poetry,” “Luck,” and “Alcohol”

Paul Celan, “Todesfuge (Deathfugue)”

Lucille Clifton, “what haunts him” and “sorrows”

e. e. cummings, “anyone lived in a pretty how town”

Lydia Davis, “Foucault and Pencil”

Denise Duhamel, “Mobius Strip: Forgetfulness”

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

Carolyn Forché, “The Colonel”

Jack Gilbert, “By Small and Small: Midnight to Four A.M.” and “The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart”

Louise Glück, “Crossroads”

Albert Goldbarth, “To Be Read in 500 Years”

Linda Gregg, “There She Is”

Robert Hayden, “Middle Passage”

Jane Hirshfield, “The Envoy”

James Joyce, from Finnegans Wake

Yusef Komunyakaa, “Facing It”

Dorianne Laux, “The Life of Trees”

W. S. Merwin, “Yesterday”

Carol Novack, from “Ramon’s Dream”

Naomi Shihab Nye, “One Boy Told Me”

Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”

Ezra Pound, “Canto I”

Adrienne Rich, “What Kind of Times Are These”

Muriel Rukeyser, “The Speaking Tree”

Sam Shepard, from Motel Chronicles

Charles Simic, “Stone”

Gary Snyder, “Hay for the Horses”

Jack Spicer, “Thing Language”

William Stafford, “At the Un-national Monument along the Canadian Border,” “Thinking for Berky,” and “Traveling Through the Dark”

Gertrude Stein, “If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso”

Ruth Stone, “Laundry”

Henry Taylor, “Barbed Wire”

Lew Welch, “I Saw Myself”

William Carlos Williams, “To Elsie”

Virginia Woolf, “[Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations…]”

Charles Wright, “When You’re Lost in Juarez in the Rain and It’s Easter Time Too”

James Wright, “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota”

William Butler Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”