• raymond carver - "so much water so close to home"
• michael martone - "pieces"
• j.d. salinger - "the laughing man"
• a.m. homes - "a real doll"
• c.s. godshalk - "the wizard"
• dorothy parker - "the standard of living"
• daniil kharms - "blue notebook no. 10"
• franz kafka - "a little fable"
• e.m. forster - "mr. andrews"
• william t. vollman - "red hands"

poems:

• philip larkin - "to failure" and "this be the verse"
• rainer maria rilke - "der panther"
• james tate - "deaf girl playing"
• wallace stevens - "a rabbit as king of the ghosts"