Texts

Poems

• "Report from the Subtropics" - Billy Collins
• "Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market" - Pablo Neruda
• "My Adidas" - Run D.M.C.
• "My Name" - Sandra Cisneros
• "My Name's Not Rodriguez" - Luis Rodriguez
• "Candy Store" and "Fame Food and Liquor" - Nate Marshall
• 9-11 poems
• Two sestinas by Elizabeth Bishop
• "I Hear America Singing" - Walt Whitman
• "I, Too" - Langston Hughes

Essays

• "Girl" - Jamaica Kincaid
• "Memory and Imagination" - Patricia Hampl