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| A Mini-Anthology of Initiation Stories | |
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| By the Creek | |
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| Girl Chronological Collection | |
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| The Juniper Tree Randall Jarrell: On the Truth in Fairy Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
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| The Birthmark Flannery | |
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| O'Connor: On Pushing Outward Toward Mystery | |
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| Edgar Allen Poe, A Tell-Tale Heart | |
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| Edgar Allen Poe: On Unity in the Tale Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener Gustave Flaubert | |
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| A Simple Heart Flannery O'Connor: On Flaubert's Use of Setting Henry James | |
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| The Middle Years Henry James: On Limiting the Protagonist's Insight Guy de Maupassant | |
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| The Necklace Guy de Maupassant: On the Conflict Between Realism and Art Kate Chopin, Desirees Baby Anton Chekhov | |
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| The Lady with the Pet Dog | |
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| The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman: On Her Own Nervous Prostration Edith Wharton | |
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| Roman Fever Edith Wharton: On Crowding Moral Drama into a Short Story James Joyce | |
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| The Dead Virginia Woolf | |
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| Solid Objects Virginia Woolf: On Her Rejection of Traditional Fiction Franz Kafka | |
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| A Hunger Artist Flannery O'Connor: On Realism in Fantasy D.H. Lawrence | |
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| The Blind Man D.H. Lawrence: On the Truths of the Body Katherine Anne Porter | |
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| The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Katherine Anne Porter: On Memory Eudora Welty: On Porter's Break with Surface Realism William Faulkner | |
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| A Rose for Emily Ernest Hemingway | |
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| Soldier's Home | |
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| Two Comments on Being a Writer John Steinbeck | |
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| The Chrysanthemums Zora Neale Hurston, Spunk Richard Wright, Big Black Good Man Eudora Welty | |
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| Livvie Eudora Welty: On the Addition of Meaning to Experience Nadine Gordimer | |
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| The Catch Jose Donoso, Paseo James Baldwin | |
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| Sonny's Blues Chinua Achebe: On Baldwin's Sadness Flannery O'Connor | |
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| A Good Man Is Hard to Find Michael Wickey: The Meaning of the Mesfit's Final Comment on the Grandmother Yukio Mishima | |
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| Swaddling Clothes Gabriel Garcia Marquez | |
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| A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Gabriel GarcIa Marquez: On Matter-of-Factness in the Fantasy Alice Munro | |
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| Circle of Prayer Chinua Achebe | |
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| Girls of War Chinua Achebe: Fulfillment Rather than Self-Gratification Edna O'Brien | |
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| Sister Imelda Raymond Carver | |
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| Cathedral Raymond Carver: How Memories Find Their Way into Stories Joyce Carol Oates | |
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| Where Are You Going | |
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| Where Have You Been? Toni Cade Bambara | |
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| The Lesson Toni Cade Bambara: Wholesomeness versus Hatred Joseph Buchac III | |
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| Turtle Meat Bobbie Ann Mason | |
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| Shiloh Bobbie Ann Mason: On the Way Stories Grow from Nuggets Alice Walker | |
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| Everyday Use Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Charlotte Pierce-Baker: The Significance of the Quilt Thom Jones | |
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| The Pugilist at Rest Louise Erdrich | |
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| Snares Sandra Cisneros | |
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| Woman Hollering Creek Sandra Cisneros: On Fairy Tales, Myths, and Stories Ethan Canin | |
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| The Emperor of the Air David Leavitt | |
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| Territory David Leavitt: On the Importance of Seeing Oneself in Stories Poetry Anthology A Mini-Anthology of Poetry Image Matsuo Basho | |
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| The voice has wholly Chiyo | |
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| Morning glories Kohyo | |
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| The stick that strikes at it Issa | |
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| A butterfly | |
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| A child Ezra Pound | |
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| In a Station at the Metro H.D. | |
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| Evening William Carlos Williams | |
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| The Red Wheelbarrow Comparison Emily Dickinson | |
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| The Snow that never drifts Kofi Awoonor | |
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| The Weaver Bird May Swenson | |
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| How Everything Happens Diction Carolyn Kizer, Bitch Amy Clampitt, Beach Glass Dennis Brutus | |
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| Nightsong: City Sound Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's Clothes Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Come Down, O Maid Wilfred Owen | |
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| Arms and the Boy Robert Hayden | |
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| Those Winter Sundays Paula Gunn Allen, Hoop Dancer Tone Edna St. Vincent Millay, Recuerdo Robert Frost | |
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| Provide, Provide Wole Soyinka | |
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| Telephone Conversation Olga Broumas | |
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| Cinderella Chronological Collection Po Ch-i | |
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| In Early Summer Lodging in a Temple to Enjoy the Moonlight | |
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| Watching the Reapers | |
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| An Early Levee | |
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| Having Climbed to the Topmost Peak of the Incense-Burner Mountain | |
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| Pruning Trees | |
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| Rising Late and Playing with A-Ts'ui, Aged Two | |
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| On His Baldness | |
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| William Carlos Williams: To the Shade of Po Ch-i | |
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| James Wright: As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of the Winter | |
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| I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor | |
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| Sonnet 55: Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments | |
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| Sonnet 65: Since Brass, nor Stone, nor Earth. nor Boundless Sea | |
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| Sonnet 73: That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold | |
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| Sonet 109: O, Never Say That I Was False of Heart | |
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| Sonnet 138: When My Love Swears That She Is Made of Truth | |
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| O Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming? | |
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| Come Away, Come Away, Death | |
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| Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun | |
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| A.E. Housman: On the Separation of Poetry and Thought | |
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| The Relic | |
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| The Canonization | |
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| A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | |
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| The Good-Morrow | |
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| The Flea | |
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| Holy Sonnett 10: Death Be Not Proud, Though Some Have Called Thee | |
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| Holy Sonnett 14: Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God | |
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| Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness | |
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| A.E. Housman: On Wit Versus Poetry | |
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| T.S. Eliot: On Intellectual versus Reflective Poetry | |
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| John Milton, When I Consider How My Light Is Spent | |
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| On the Late Massacre at Piedmont | |
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| Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint | |
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| From Paradise Lost, Book IX, Lines 399-548, 994-1189 | |
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| T.S. Eliot: On Poetry | |
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| Eyes and Tears | |
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| The Definition of Love | |
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| A Dialogue Between the Soul and the Body | |
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| To His Coy Mistress | |
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| Bermudas | |
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| Archibald MacLeish: You, Andrew Marvell | |
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| The Lamb | |
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| The Chimney Sweep | |
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| The Little Black Boy | |
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| The Tyger | |
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| The Sick Rose | |
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| A Poison Tree. London | |
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| Auguries of Innocence | |
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| And Did Those Feet | |
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| A.E. Housman: Blake's Revolt Against the Intellect | |
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| William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey | |
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| She Dwelt Amoung the Untrodden Ways | |
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| Strange Fits of Passion I Have Known | |
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| There Was a Boy | |
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| The World Is Too Much With Us | |
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| Composed Upon Westminster Bridge | |
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| Resolution and Independence | |
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| William Wordsworth: Please Whom? | |
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| William Wordsworth: The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings | |
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| When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be | |
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| Ode on Melancholy | |
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| La Belle Dame Sans Merci | |
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| Ode to a Nightingale | |
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| Ode on a Grecian Urn | |
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| To Autumn | |
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| Countee Cullen: To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime | |
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| Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Mariana. The Kraken | |
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| Ulysses | |
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| Break, Break, Break | |
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| Tears, Idle Tears | |
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| Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal | |
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| In Memoriam Sections 2, 7, 11, 20 | |
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| T.S. Eliot: On Tennyson As an Instinctive Rebel | |
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| Robert Browning, My Last Duchess, Meeting at Night. Fra Lippo Lippi. Two in the Campagna | |
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| Curry: Browning's New Literary Form | |
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| Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, Section | |
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| The Wound-Dresser. When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | |
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| A Noiseless, Patient Spider | |
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| To a Locomotive in Winter | |
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| Allen Ginsburg: A Supermarket in California | |
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| Charles Baudelaire, To the Reader | |
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| Correspondence | |
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| By Association | |
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| The King of the Rainy Country | |
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| The Little Old Women | |
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| Charles Baudelaire: On the Future of the Middle Class | |
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| Emily Dickinson, I Like a Look of Agony | |
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| Wild Nights--Wild Nights! | |
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| Of Bronze--and Blaze-- | |
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| The Soul Selects Her Own Society-- | |
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| What Soft--Cherubic Creatures-- | |
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| I Died for Beauty--But Was Scarce | |
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| It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up | |
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| The Heart Asks Pleasure--First-- | |
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| Because I Could Not Stop for Death-- | |
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| My Life Had Stood--A Loaded Gun-- | |
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| A Narrow Fellow in the Grass | |
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| My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close-- | |
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| Richard Wilbur: On Dickinson's Religion | |
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| Christina Rossetti, In an Artist's Studio | |
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| Song (When I Am Dead My Dearest) | |
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| L.E.L.. Good Friday | |
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| Life and Death | |
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| By the Sea | |
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| 'They Des | |