THE
BIG
COLLECTION
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
“Poems From An Email Exchange” (poem, 2016)
“Rihanna: Birthday Cake” (poem)
“The American Road Trip” (essay, 2019)
“At the Museum” (poem, 1990)
“The Wolf’s Postscript to Little Red Riding Hood” (poem, 1987)
“City Moon” (poem, 2005)
The Handmaid’s Tale (novel, 1985)
“Happy Endings” (short story, 1983)
“The Animals in That Country” (poem, 1974)
“My Tongue is Divided Into Two” (poem, 2002)
“You Are Not Going to Come to Trillium” (poem 2016)
B
“I Am Offering this Poem” (poem, 1990)
Giovanni’s Room (novel, 1956)
“The Giver” (poem)
The Fire Next Time (nonfiction essays, 1963)
“The Lesson” (short story, 1972)
“When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving” (poem, 2019)
“One Art” (poem, 1976)
“The Children of the Poor” (poem, 1960)
“We Real Cool” (poem, 1960)
“So You Want to be a Writer” (poem, 1959)
“A Red, Red Rose” (poem, 1794)
C
Six Poems from The Trees Witness Everything (poetry, 2022)
The Cherry Orchard (play, 1904)
“Summer” (poem, 2021)
“Latin Women Pray,” (poem, 1980)
“Introduction to Poetry” (poem, 1988)
Short Fiction: All Fires the Fire: Collected Stories (short stories, 1973)
Poetry: Save Twilight: Selected Poems (poetry, 1997)
The Vortex (play, 1924)
“Incident” (poem, 1925)
D
“I Belong There” (poem, 2003)
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant–“ (poem, 1890)
“The Flea” (poem, 1633)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845, autobiography)
“Sympathy” (poem, 1899)
E
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African (1789, autobiography)
F
“The Colonel” (poem, 1981)
G
Novella: This is Pleasure
Short Fiction: Bad Behavior: Stories
“Howl” (poem, 1956)
The Plays of Susan Glaspell
CALVIN GIMPELEVITCH
“You Wouldn’t Have Known About Me” (short story, 2017)
“The Hill We Climb” (poem, 2021)
Rachel: A Play in Three Acts (play, 1969)
H
“All-American” (poem, 2016)
“Desire” (poem, 1925)
“Harlem” (poem, 1925)
“Mother to Son” (poem, 1922)
“Theme for English B” (poem, 1951)
I
Hedda Gabler (play, 1890)
A Doll’s House (play, 1879)
J
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861, autobiographical novel)
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912, novel)
“I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies” (poem, 1976)
“Poem About My Rights” (poem, 1978)
“Araby” (short story, 1914)
K
“Now Wait for this Week” (short story, 2019)
“Girl” (short story, 1978)
Angles in America (play, 1991)
L
Short Story: “The Boundary” (short story, 2018)
“Hell-Heaven” (short fiction collection, 2008)
“Immigrant Blues” (poem, 2008)
Short Fiction “All That Offers a Happy Ending is a Fairy Tale” (short story, 2016)
Short Fiction: “A Flawless Silence” (short story, 2018)
“Bath” (poem, 1955)
“The Black Unicorn” (poem, 1978m audio only)
“Monody” (poem, 2022)
M
“The Refugee” (short story, 1969)
“To His Coy Mistress” (poem, 1681)
“Dear Gaybashers” (poem, 2012)
“If We Must Die” (poem, 1919)
N
“Fingers Remember” (poem, 2019)
“The War Years” (short story, 2022)
“Mediterranean Blue” (poem, 2019)
O
“On Trans” (poem, 2015)
P
Lunacy (play, 2007)
“Love in a Time of Covid-19” (poem, 2022)
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (novel, 1838)
“The Tell-Tale Heart” (short story, 1843)
“The Raven” (poem, 1845)
The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave (1831, autobiography)
Q
R
DUDLEY RANDALL
“Ballad of Birmingham” (poem, 1968)
“The Floating Poem” from Twenty-One Love Poems (poetry, 1978)
“My Papa’s Waltz,” (poem, 1942)
S
Sappho “The Anactoria Poem” (poem, 6th century BCE)
Five Poems (poetry, 21st century/collected)
Hamlet (play, 1599-1601)
Sonnet 32, “If thou survive my well-contented day”
Frankenstein (novek, 1818)
“Immigrant Song” (poem, 2006)
“not an elegy for Mike Brown” (poem, 2014)
T
The Post Office (play, 1914)
“Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” (poem, 1951)
“The Storyteller Gets Her Name” (poem, 2021)
“Flounder” (poem, 2000)
The Confessions of Nat Turner (autobiographical history, 1831, transcription by prison clerk)
U
V
W
“The Visitor” (short story, 2020)
“How Long?” (poem, 1853)
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1867, poetry collection, The Walt Whitman Archive)
An Ideal Husband (play, 1893)
Fences (play, 1985)
“Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch”
(poem, 1988)
“The World Is Too Much With Us” (poem, 1807)
X
Y
“Dori and Jina” (short story, 2018)
The Devil’s Laughter (novel, 1953)
The Vixens (novel, 1947)
