Includes short stories, plays, and poems by Emily Dickinson, Gail Godwin, Karen Van der Zee, Thomas Jefferson, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Mark Halliday, William Faulkner, Andre Dubus, Charles Dickens, Bharati Mukherjee, Herman Melville, Ernest Hemingway, Fay Weldon, Toni Cade Bambara, Anton Chekhov, Joyce Carol Oates, Colette, Ralph Ellison, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Crane, Katherine Mansfield, Dagoberto Gilb, Raymond Carver, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Susan Minot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Munro, James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, Stephen King, D.H. Lawrence, Tim O'Brien, Edgar Allan Poe, John Updike, Bessie Head, Naguib Mahfouz, Bi Shumin, Alison Baker, Tobias Wolff, Marge Piercy, Robert Hayden, Wole Soyinka, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Larkin, E.E. Cummings, Bruce Springsteen, Queen Latifah, John Donne, Li Ho, Robert Hass, Randall Jarrell, Derek Walcott, Andrew Marvell, Richard Wilbur, Diane Ackerman, Thomas Hardy, David R. Slavitt, Sharon Olds, John Keats, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sappho, William Carlos Williams, Walt Whitman, Theodore Roethke, William Blake, Wilfred Owen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ezra Pound, Rosario Castellanos, Dylan Thomas, J. Patrick Lewis, Sylvia Plath, William Wordsworth, Lucille Clifton, Robert Frost, Robert Bly, John Ciardi, Gary Soto, May Swenson, Galway Kinnell, Richard Armour, Robert Southey, Lewis Carroll, William Butler Yeats, Dorothy Parker, Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Julia Alvarez, Maya Angelou, Shakespeare, Christina Rossetti, Marianne Moore, Adrienne Rich, Susan Glaspell, Aristotle, Freud, Sophocles, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Claribel Alegria, Anna Akhmatova, Tennyson, Henrik Ibsen, David Henry Hwang, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, and others.