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 * 1) Poetry

Billy Collins, “Introduction to Poetry”

Emily Dickinson


 * 1) "I am nobody, who are you?"
 * 2) "To make a prairie"
 * 3) I never hear the word "escape"
 * 4) "The Soul selects her own society"
 * 5) "The Show is not the Show"
 * 6) "Much madness is divinest sense"
 * 7) “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers —”
 * 8) “They shut me up in Prose--”
 * 9) "I dwell in possibility"
 * 10) "The Bustle in a House"
 * 11) "After great pain, a formal feeling comes"
 * 12) “Pain — has an Element of Blank —”
 * 13) "Heart, not so heavy as mine"

Full list of Dickinson's poems  (in case you end up loving her)

Langston Hughes


 * 1) "Song for a Dark Girl"
 * 2) "Let America Be America Again"
 * 3) "Harlem"
 * 4) "My People"

Brian Bilston, "Refugees"

Ross Gay, “Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude”

II. Narrative


 * Julio Cortázar, "The Southern Thruway" and the original in Spanish: "La autopista del sur"
 * Ray Bradbury, "Night Call, Collect" (radio version)

III. Drama

William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing. Any version will do, but the No Fear Shakespeare  has side by side texts: Shakespeare’s original and a modernized version. I expect you to watch the 1993 movie version of the play. There is a copy at LaGuardia’s streaming service. You need to log in using your LaGuardia ID and search for it.