The Writer's Resource - Second Edition

"Another copter's comin' in, Cap'n" / Tom Tiede

The Eagle / Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner / Randall Jarrell

Auto wreck / Karl Shapiro

Eve in darkness / Kaatje Hurlbut

Aretha has the best man / Jane Howard

Getting 'em ready for Darrell / Larry L. King

I thought my last hour had come ... / Robert Guillain

An Absence of windows / Richard Selzer

Incident / Countee Cullen

Out, Out — / Robert Frost

I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen

What a lovely generalization! ; Which which / James Thurber

How 114 washing machines came to the Crow reservaton / Earl Shorris

Riesumie / Dorothy Parker

The World is a beautiful place / Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The Unknown Citizen / W.H. Auden

The Portable phonograph / Walter van Tilburg Clark

How to write with style / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

How to write clearly / Edward T. Thompson

Madam Mosquito / Alice Gray

How to say thank you / Ray Hoffman

Wall covering / Dereck Williamson

How to fight cold-proneness / John E. Eichenlaub

Your reflex systems / Jonathan Miller

Departmental / Robert Frost

The Story of an hour / Kate Chopin

Just lather, that's all / Hernando Telliez

Notes on punctuation / Lewis Thomas

Fighting bugs organically / Laurence Sheehan

Friends, good friends

and such good friends / Judith Viorst

Slavery and brutality / John Hope Franklin

Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas

The Darling / Anton Chekhov

Wisdom from the devil's dictionary / Ambrose Bierce

Why I want a wife / Judy Syfers

Brevity / F.L. Lucas

Immobilization / Wayne W. Dyer

In Bed / Joan Didion

Defining mental illness / Thomas Szasz

Much madness is divinest sense / Emily Dickinson

Metaphors / Sylvia Plath

You all know the story of the other woman / Anne Sexton

Ducks vs. hard rocks / Deairich Hunter

Doin' somebody wrong / Ann Nietzke

Men in bondage on an Easter morning / Seymour Krim

They don't make them like they used to (Thank Goodness) / J. Baldwin

Living in sin / Adrienne Rich

The Garden of love / William Blake

The Spring and the Fall / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Naming of parts / Henry Reed

The Other side of the hedge / E.M. Forster

Rope / Katherine Anne Porter

The Hating game / Peter Andrews

Snarling cars / Paul Blumberg

The Lowest animal / Mark Twain

Toys / Roland Barthes

Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold

Before bed / Keith Waldrop

The Untold lie / Sherwood Anderson

The great person-hole-cover debate / Lindsy Van Gelder

Drugs / Gore Vidal

The bird and the machine / Loren Eiseley

The youngest and brightest thing around / Lewis Thomas

from Civil disobedience / Henry David Thooreau

Growing your own revolution / Hugh Drummond

Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen

In Flanders Field / John McCrae

To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell

The revolt of "Mother" / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Not poor, just broke / Dick Gregory

Aunt Charlotte's reward / Bernard Sloan

Technical communication : the persuasive purpose / J.C. Mathes

Weasel words : God's little helpers / Paul Stevens

In the end was the euphemism / Fred M. Hechinger

Wanton acts of usage / Christopher Hitchens

Next to of course god america i / e.e. cummings

The Twenty- third Psalm / The Bible (King James Version)

The Twenty-third Psalm / Alan J. Simpson and Robert A. Baker

The War prayer / Mark Twain

I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are no easy answers / Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO)

The Car for people whose means have changed but whose values haven't / Volvo

A $3.2 million pulp romance / Cyra McFadden