• 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"

• charles baudelaire
• anne carson
• e. e. cummings
• dante
• emily dickinson
• t. s. eliot
• john keats
• frank o'hara
• sylvia plath
• ezra pound
• rainer maria rilke
• arthur rimbaud
• percy shelley
• warsan shire
• dylan thomas
• paul verlaine
• ocean vuong
• walt whitman
• william blake
• william shakespeare
• william butler yeats

albert camus

• a happy death
• the stranger
• the plague

cormac mccarthy

• blood meridian
• the road

ernest hemingway

• a farewell to arms
• for whom the bell tolls
• a moveable feast