Schedule of Readings & Postings

1.15  Introduction

1.22  Why Are We Concerned About Books and Reading Anyway?  Jack Ayers.

1.29  Laura (Riding) Jackson.  THE LAURA (RIDING) JACKSON READER.  Persea Books.  0892552638.  Margaret Poist.

2.5  Langston Hughes.  SELECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HUGHES.  Vintage Books.  0394719107.  Amy Schmidt.

2.12  Wallace Stevens.  THE PALM AT THE END OF THE MIND:  SELECTED POEMS AND A PLAY.  Vintage Books.  0679724452.  Jack Ayers (first half of the collection, through p. 206).

2.19  Wallace Stevens.  Margaret Poist (p. 207-398).

2.26  T.S. Eliot.  FOUR QUARTETS.  Harvest Books.  0156332256.  Amy Schmidt.

3.4  Allen Ginsberg.  HOWL AND OTHER POEMS.  City Lights Books.  0878260175.  Jack Ayers.

3.11  Elizabeth Bishop.  THE COMPLETE POEMS, 1927-1979. Margaret Poist.

3.25  Ted Hughes.  NEW SELECTED POEMS.  Faber & Faber.  0571173780.  Amy Schmidt

4.1  Seamus Heaney.  OPENED GROUND:  SELECTED POEMS, 1966-1996. Jack Ayers, through SWEENEY ASTRAY.

4.8  Seamus Heaney.  Margaret Poist, through p. 430.

4.15  Czeslaw Milosz.  SELECTED POEMS:  1931-2004.  0060188677.  Amy Schmidt 

4.22  Robert Penn Warren.  SELECTED POEMS OF ROBERT PENN WARREN.  LSU Press.  0807126772.  Jack Ayers.

4.29  Yusef Komunyakaa.  NEON VENACULAR:  NEW AND SELECTED POEMS.  Wesleyan.  0819512117.  Margaret Poist & Amy Schmidt.