June 26
Walt Whitman
“One’s-Self I Sing” (1867)
“A Woman Waits for Me” (1867)
“I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing” (1892)
“Out of the rolling ocean the crowd” (1860)
“A Noiseless Patient Spider” (1891)
“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” (1865)
“O Captain! My Captain!” (1865)

July 30 (Tuesday)
Jorge Luis Borges
“The Golem” (1964) “El Golem” (in Spanish with the rhythm and strict a-b-b-a rhyming pattern that is impossible to reproduce in translation).
“Death and the Compass” (1942)
“The Sect of the Phoenix” (1952)
“The South” (1953)

August 27 (Tuesday)
Herodotus
Battle of Thermopylae, History, Book 7, sections 198 thru 239 (440 BCE)

September 25
August Wilson
Fences (1985)

October 30
Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji, Chapters 1 & 2 only (Early 11th century)

November 27
Marcel Proust
Within A Budding Grove Part 3, volume 2 of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past) (1914; published in 1919)
December

BREAK

January 29
Steve Gooch
Female Transport (1972)
Optional: See Female Transport, directed by Bill Watson, in the Kenilworth Five-0-Eight black-box theatre, February 26-March 1.

February 26
Euripides
Trojan Women (415 BCE)
Optional: See Trojan Women, directed by Marti Gobel, on the UWM Mainstage Theatre, March 4-8.

March 25
Sarah Orne Jewett
“Poor Joanna Todd“ Chapters 13-15 from The Country of the Pointed Firs (1910)

Ellen Glasgow
“The Shadowy Third” (1916)
“A Point in Morals“ (1898)

April 29
Aristophanes
Lysistrata (411 BCE — David Mulroy’s translation)

May 27
William Shakespeare
Richard II (1597)