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ENG 201 A : Literature for Creative Writers
Selected by AGreenbaum
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Poems for study in an introductory creative writing course
 
Poetry
A Green Crab's Shell by Mark Doty
A group of girls from Minnesota or black mascara by Maureen Owen
Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry by Howard Nemerov
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks by Jane Kenyon
Coastal Plain by Kathryn Stripling Byer
Fairbanks Under the Solstice by John Haines
from Crossing State Lines [Shirtsleeved afternoons] by Rita Dove
Ground Swell by Mark Jarman
Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow by Judy Jordan
Hovering at a Low Altitude by Dahlia Ravikovitch
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek by James Dickey
I shall forget you presently, my dear (Sonnet XI) by Edna St. Vincent Millay
In Louisiana by Albert Bigelow Paine
Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins
Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata by Natasha Trethewey
Part of Eve's Discussion by Marie Howe
Persephone the Wanderer by Louise Glück
Piano by D. H. Lawrence
Theories of Time and Space by Natasha Trethewey
To You by Walt Whitman
Water Picture by May Swenson
Wrap by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
 
Prose
More than the Birds, Bees, and Trees: A Closer Look at Writing Haibun by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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