Creative Writing Inspiration Resource

POETRY

Caged Bird by Maya Angelou

We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

I Can’t Swim by Heather Christle

Won’t You Celebrate with Me by Lucille Clifton

Adolescence II by Rita Dove

The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away by Matthea Harvey

Harlem by Langston Hughes

Theme for English B by Langston Hughes

Alameda Street by Douglas Kearney

Black Earth by Marianne Moore

The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur

Never Again the Same by James Tate

Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman

Youth by James Wright

FICTION

Bad News by Margaret Atwood

Snow by Ann Beattie

Home by Gwendolyn Brooks

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn by Sandra Cisneros

Girl by Jamaica Kincaid

Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield

One of These Days by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Lather and Nothing Else by Hernando Tellez

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber

Luck by Mark Twain

Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut

LYRIC ESSAYS

The Body by Jenny Boully

Genome Tome by Priscilla Long

Vanishing Point by Ander Monson