Presentation Readings
  American Literature
       Summer 2017

7 Aug. Monday           Langston Hughes
Dream Variations
Freedom’s Plough
Dreams
Life is Fine

8 Aug. Tuesday          William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow
Dedication for a Plot of Ground
Blizzard
The Fool’s Song
Poem (As the Cat)

9 Aug. Wednesday     Gwendolyn Brooks
A Sunset of the City
a song in the front yard
We Real Cool
the sonnet-ballad

9 Aug. Wednesday     Dudley Randall
Ballad of Birmingham
Booker T. and W.E.B.
A Poet Is Not a Jukebox
Black Magic” (also known as “Blackberry Sweet”)

10 Aug. Thursday       Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Birth-Mark