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Listening to Literature Aloud

Introduction: Listening to Literature Aloud

FICTION

John Updike: A & P

James Joyce: Eveline

Jamaica Kincaid: Girl

Annie Proulx: 55 Miles to the Gas Pump

POETRY

Regina Barreca: Nighttime Fires

Randall Jarrell: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Katharyn Howd Machan: Hazel Tells LaVerne

Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress

Gwendolyn Brooks: We Real Cool

Judy Page Heitzman: The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill

Robert Frost: Acquainted with the Night

E.E. Cummings: next to of course god America i

Robert Browning: My Last Duchess

Emily Dickinson: I heard a Fly buzz—when I died

William Butler Yeats: That the Night Come

William Blake: The Lamb

William Shakespeare: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

William Shakespeare: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun

Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Walt Whitman: From I Sing the Body Electric

William Carlos Williams: The Red Wheelbarrow

John Donne: The Flea

Robert Frost: Mending Wall

Langston Hughes: Harlem

John Keats: La Belle Dame sans Merci

John Milton: When I consider how my light is spent

DRAMA

Susan Glaspell: A Scene from Trifles

William Shakespeare: A Scene from Othello