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ENGL 1302 Readings: Poetry
This guide contains readings from the TCC Library collections and online literature resources to support ENGL 1302 classes. For questions, please contact ask.librarian@tccd.edu or your library liaison.
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Authors A-L
Akbar, Kaveh
A Boy Steps into the Water, 2017
What Seems Like Joy, 2017
Ali, Agha Shahid
The Wolf's Postscript to "Little Red Riding Hood," 1987
Alighieri, Dante
Inferno, circa 1307
Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Angelou, Maya
Still I Rise, 1978
Asghar, Fatimah
Partition, 2018
Auden, W. H.
The Unknown Citizen, 1940
Twelve Songs: IX (Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone)
Bass, Ellen
Indigo, 2017
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Sadie and Maud, 1945
We Real Cool, 1959
Brown, Nathan
(scroll down the page on his personal website for your poem)
Just Now, 2017
Young Soldier, 2017
What Holds, 2018
A Hymn of Praise, 2016
Nevertheless, It Moves, 2015
iLone Together, 2013
Neruda's Garden 2012
Existential Solstice, 2011
Little Jerusalems, 2010
The Sign, 2013
Browning, Robert
My Last Duchess, 1842
My Last Duchess (alternate link)
Burns, Robert
A Red, Red Rose, 1796
Choi, Franny
Introduction to Quantum Theory
Turing_Test Boundaries, 2019
Chudleigh, Mary
To the Ladies
Collins, Billy
Introduction to Poetry, 1988
Davis, Lydia
Head, Heart
Davis, William Virgil
Those Sunday Mornings, 2010
Dickinson, Emily
Because I Could Not Stop for Death, 1863
Dove, Rita
Teach Us to Number Our Days, 1989
Dunbar, Paul Lawrence
We Wear the Mask, 1895
Eliot, T.S.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 1915
Erdrich, Louise
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways, 2003
Evans, William
Even Though I Love You More Than Anything, That Won't Stop Them From Killing You, 2017
Frost, Robert
Mending Wall, 1914
The Road Not Taken, 1916
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening, 1923
Gibson, Andrea
The Madness Vase, AKA The Nutritionist, 2019
Tincture, 2018
Goodwin, Idris
Old Ladies and Dope Boys, 1977
Hayden, Robert
Those Winter Sundays, 1962
Heaney, Seamus
Digging, 1966
Henley, William Ernest
Echoes: 4. Invictus, 1875
Hicok, Bob
A History of Origami, 2009
Hughes, Langston
Harlem, 1951
Mother to Son, 1922
The Negro Speaks of Rivers, 1920
The Theme for English B, 1951
Kaminsky, Ilya
In a Time of Peace, 2019
My Mother's Tango, 2004
We Lived Happily During the War, 2013
Komunyakaa, Yusef
Facing It, 2001
Lorde, Audre
Power, 1978
Lovelace, Nabila
After Chris Abani
Authors M-Z
Marvell, Andrew
To His Coy Mistress, 1681
Mearns, Hughes
Antigonish (I Met a Man Who Wasn't There), 1922
Mojgani, Anis
Pancakes, 2013
Nguyen, Hieu Minh
Notes on Staying, 2016
Olivarez, José
My Parents Fold Like Luggage, 2018
Ortiz Cofer, Judith
Quinceañera, 1991
The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica
Owen, Wilfred
Dulce et Decorum Est, 1917
Pastan, Linda
To a Daughter Leaving Home
Piercy, Marge
Barbie Doll, 1971
See page 9 of the PDF
The Secretary Chant, 1982
Plath, Sylvia
The Arrival of the Bee Box, 1965
Daddy, 1960
Lady Lazarus, 1960
Metaphors, 1960
Mirror, 1963
Poe, Edgar Allan
The Raven, 1845
Pound, Ezra
The Garden, 1913
In a Station of the Metro, 1913
Dogmatic Statement Concerning the Game of Chess: Theme for a Series of Pictures, 1915
Randall, Dudley
Ballad of Birmingham, 1963
Reza, Seema
(scroll down the page to find)
Help, 2015
Rich, Adrienne
Living in Sin, 1975
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Ríos, Alberto Alvaro
Nani, 1982
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Richard Cory, 1897
Roethke, Theodore
My Papa's Waltz, 1942
The Waking, 1953
Rosetti, Christina
After Death
Sax, Sam
The Boy Detective Gets Detected, 2015
Scroll down to page 40 of the PDF
Gay Boys and the Bridges Who Love Them, 2018
Essay on Crying in Public, 2018
Teeth, 2014
Sexton, Anne
Cinderella, 1971
Shakespeare, William
Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun
Shire, Warsan
Home, 2015
Smith, Danez
Dinosaurs in the Hood, 2014
It Won't Be a Bullet, 2017
Thomas, Dylan
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, 1937
Tran, Chrysanthemum
Discovery (For Jennifer Laude)
Whitman, Walt
I Hear America Singing, 1860
Willis-Abdurraqib, Hanif
When I Say that Loving Me is Kind of Like Being a Chicago Bulls Fan, 2016
Poetry Collections
If you are looking for a poem to analyze, anthologies may be helpful places to find new poetry.
The American Voice Anthology of Poetry
Before Harlem: An Anthology of African American Literature from the Long Nineteenth Century
Looking Out, Looking In: Anthology of Latino Poetry
The New Anthology of American Poetry: Postmodernisms 1950-Present
The New Young American Poets: An Anthology
Lift Every Voice Project Reader
An exploration of the five themes of this African American poetry project with illustrative poems.
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