Media Room

Poetry and short story links you will need this semester:

Jim Shepard, “Proto-Scorpions of the Silurian”

http://failbetter.com/17/ShepardProto.php

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”

http://salvoblue.homestead.com/wings.html

Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths”

http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/borges-garden.html#_ftn1

Robert Lowell, "History"

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15287

Shakespeare, "Sonnet 30"

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1581

Robert Pinsky, “Impossible to Tell”

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Robert-Pinsky/4413

Frank Bidart, “Ellen West”

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177900

Frank Bidart, “If See No End In Is”

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=180058

Elizabeth Bishop, “Casabianca”

http://www.poemhunter.com/elizabeth-bishop/

Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art”

http://www.poemhunter.com/elizabeth-bishop/poems/page-2/

Dylan Thomas "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377

Walt Whitman, “Dalliance of the Eagles”

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/waltwhitman/13406

Wallace Stevens, “The Snow Man”

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/stevens-snowman.html

Emily Dickinson, “[The Brain–is wider than the Sky]”

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-brain-is-wider-than-the-sky/

Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15433

William Carlos Williams, “This is Just to Say”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15535

Kenneth Koch, “Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams”

http://stuff.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/poetry/poems/variationsOnATheme.html

Cavafy, “Che Fece…Il Gran Rifiuto”

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=178442

http://users.hol.gr/~barbanis/cavafy/rifiuto.html

Arthur Sze, “Before Completion”

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=180570

William Butler Yeats, “The Arrow”

http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/795/

William Butler Yeats, “Adam’s Curse”

http://employees.csbsju.edu/dbeach/beautytruth/More%20poems.pdf