Index of Authors and Their Works
| Chapter | Author | Work |
|---|---|---|
| Poetry | Vicente J. Bernal | Dios Bendiga a R—————— |
| Poetry | Vicente J. Bernal | America |
| Poetry | Hippolyte Castra | La campagne de 1814–1815 |
| Poetry | Léona Queyrouze | Allégorie—Pensée d’un Créole |
| Poetry | Adrien Roquette, Chahta-Ima | Mokeur Shanteur |
| Poetry | R. Paul Cooper | Désimm a Koronage |
| Poetry | Claude McKay | If We Must Die |
| Poetry | Archibald MacLeish | Ars Poetica |
| Poetry | Sylvia Plath | Daddy |
| Poetry | Pablo Neruda | A Dog Has Died |
| Poetry | Ai Ogawa | Interview with a Policeman |
| Poetry | Adrian C. Louis | I Flew Into Denver April |
| Poetry | Yusef Komunyakaa | Facing It |
| Poetry | Harryette Mullen | We Are Not Responsible |
| Short Story | Sarah Orne Jewett | A White Heron |
| Short Story | Kate Chopin | The Storm |
| Short Story | Willa Cather | A Wagner Matinee |
| Short Story | Zora Neal Hurston | Spunk |
| Short Story | Edgar Allan Poe | The Cask of Amontillado |
| Short Story | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Young Goodman Brown |
| Short Story | E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake, or “Double Wampum”) | A Red Girl’s Reasoning |
| Short Story | Kate Chopin | Story of an Hour |
| Short Story | James Joyce | Araby |
| Short Story | Susan Glaspell | A Jury of Her Peers |
| Short Story | Mourning Dove (Hum-ishu-ma/Christine Quintasket) | The Spirit Chief Names the Animal People |
| Short Story | Katherine Mansfield | Miss Brill |
| Short Story | Katherine Mansfield | A Cup of Tea |
| Novella | Kate Chopin | The Awakening |
| Novella | Nella Larsen | Passing |
| Novel | Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre |
| Drama | Aristophanes | Lysistrata |
| Drama | William Shakespeare | Othello |
| Film | George A. Romero | Night of the Living Dead |
| Creative Nonfiction | Thomas Paine | Common Sense |
| Creative Nonfiction | Frederick Douglass | What to the Slave is the 4th of July? |
