| James Baldwin | Sonnys Blues |
| Toni Cade Bambera | The Lesson |
| Elizabeth Bishop | One Art |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | The Mother |
| Lewis Carroll | Jabberwocky |
| Raymond Carver | Cathedral |
| Kate Chopin | Désirée's Baby |
| Kate Chopin | The Storm |
| Kate Chopin | The Story of an Hour |
| Billy Collins | The Names |
| Robert Frost | Acquainted with the Night |
| Robert Frost | Mending Wall |
| Robert Frost | The Pasture |
| Lorraine Hansberry | A Raisin in the Sun |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Young Goodman Brown |
| Seamus Heaney | Digging |
| Langston Hughes | The Weary Blues |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Sweat |
| Henrik Ibsen | A Dolls House |
| James Joyce | Araby |
| John Keats | Bright star! |
| Bobbie Ann Mason | Shiloh |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | Love Is Not All |
| Joyce Carol Oates | Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? |
| Tim O'Brien | The Things They Carried |
| Flannery O'Connor | A Good Man is Hard to Find |
| Wilfred Owen | Dulce et Decorum Est |
| Sylvia Plath | Lady Lazarus |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Ligeia |
| Edward Arlington Robinson | Richard Cory |
| Mary Jo Salter | Welcome to Hiroshima |
| William Shakespeare | The Theme of Love in Sonnets |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet |
| William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| William Shakespeare | Sonnet 73 |
| Sophocles | Oedipus the King |
| Alice Walker | Everyday Use |
| Eudora Welty | Why I Live at the P.O. |
| William Butler Yeats | The Lake Isle of Innisfree |