Confabulation Spring 2009 Reading Schedule (whee!)

Jan. 14— Mark Twain—A Fable

Jan. 21—Modern Poetry:
"Flame" by Billy Collins; "The Zen of Housework" by Al Zolynas; "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams; "This Is Just To Say" by William Carlos Williams; "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by William Butler Yeats; "No Second Troy" by William Butler Yeats; "Journey of the Magi" by T.S. Eliot; "Why I Am Not a Painter" by Frank O'Hara

Jan. 28—Edgar Allen Poe—The Black Cat

Feb. 4—O. Henry—The Last Leaf; Make the Whole World Kin

Feb. 11—Ye Olde Englishe Poetry:
"Sonnet 130" by William Shakespeare; "Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare; "Song" by John Donne; "Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat Drowned In a Tub of Goldfish" by Thomas Gray; "Three Ravens" by anonymous; "Cuckoo Song" by anonymous

Feb. 18—Writing Day

Feb. 25— Rudyard Kipling-- Swept And Garnished

Mar. 4—Oscar Wilde—The Model Millionaire

Mar. 11—The Romantics Aren’t So Romantic:
"A Poison Tree" by William Blake; "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" by William Wordsworth; "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; "When We Two Parted" by Lord Byron; "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley; "On the Sea" by John Keats

Mar. 18—Writing Day

Mar. 25—Leo Tolstoi—God Sees the Truth, But Waits

Apr. 1—Ernest Hemingway—A Day’s Wait; The Killers (librarian edition)

Apr. 8— Washington Irving—The Devil and Tom Walker

*Apr. 12-18 * National Library Week*

Apr. 15—Poe-Etry:All By Our Dear Friend Edgar:
"The Bells"; "The Conqueror-Worm"; "Dream-Land"; "A Dream Within a Dream"; "The Raven"

Apr. 22—Writing Day

Apr. 29—Roald Dahl—The Umbrella Man

May 6—Americana:
"Birches" by Robert Frost; "Death sets a thing significant" by Emily Dickinson; "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden; "The Dream Keeper" by Langston Hughes; "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman

May 13—Writing Day

*Summer Reading Begins*