Celebrate diverse voices through the magic of storytelling. Here are a few suggestions to get started!
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by
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General Fiction
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Romance
Coming of Age
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My Sister, the Serial Killer by
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- O Captain! My Captain - Walt Whitman
O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done… - Hope Is the Thing with Feathers - Emily Dickinson
"Hope" is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul… - Sonnet 16 - William Shakespeare
Love is not love, / Which alters when it alteration finds… - The New Colossus - Emma Lazarus
Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free… - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink… - The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference. - Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways… - Sonnets 18 - William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? - The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die… - Leisure – W. H. Davies
What is this life if, full of care, / We have no time to stand and stare… - She Walks in Beauty - Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night… - The Passionate Shepard to His Love - Christopher Marlowe
Come live with me and be my love… - The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." - To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time - Robert Herrick
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may… - A Red, Red Rose - Robert Burns
O, my Luve's like a red, red rose...
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To read or not to read? That is the question.
Celebrate the Bard of Avon's 460th birthday in style.
Articles
- William Shakespeare: ten of the Bard's best poems
- A man of MANY WORDS
- William Shakespeare - The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia
- William Shakespeare - Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature
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- Act I; A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Act II; A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Act III; A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Act IV; A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Act V; A Midsummer Night's Dream
eBooks
- Oxford Shakespeare : William Shakespeare : The Complete Works
- Oxford Shakespeare : William Shakespeare : A Textual Companion
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- Great Minds with Dan Harmon
- 10 Things I Hate About You
- West Side Story
- Warm Bodies
- Twelfth Night
- She's the Man
- Romeo and Juliet
- Richard III
- Othello
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Macbeth (2015)
- Macbeth (1971)
- King Lear
- Kiss Me Kate
- Hamlet (2000)
- Hamlet (1996)
- Hamlet (1990)
- Forbidden Planet
- Coriolanus
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
Born on this day in 1770, William Wordsworth was an English poet who helped establish the Romanticism literary movement.
Learn more about him and what influenced his most famous poem, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" here:
Articles
- Wordsworth's daffodils were not lonely – or even alone
- Departing Summer Hath Assumed by William Wordsworth
- I heard a thousand blended notes by William Wordsworth
- William Wordsworth
eBooks
- The Poems of William Wordsworth : Collected Reading Texts From the Cornell Wordsworth Series by William Wordsworth and Jared R. Curtis
- The Prelude and Other Poems by William Wordsworth
- William Wordsworth : 21st-Century Oxford Authors by Stephen Gill
- The Life of William Wordsworth : A Critical Biography by John Worthen
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The Cambridge Introduction to William Wordsworth by Emma Mason
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Did you know Maya Angelou is a three-time "spoken word" Grammy award winner? Born on this day in 1928, Miss Angelou was an author, poet, and activist best known for her memoir, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
Take a deeper look at her life and legacy:
Articles
- Maya Angelou: 1928-2014 / Self-made inspiration
- Still I Rise
- Maya Angelou Biography - Gale in Context
- Maya Angelou Biography - Contemporary Black Biography
- Maya Angelou Biography - DISCovering Authors
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