Week Two

(Start with my first post if you’re unfamiliar with my lists.)

6/29/20

• Carol Ann Duffy, “Originally” and Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Lines Written by the Bay of Lerici” (poems)
• Jean Toomer, “Karintha” (story)
• Richard Wright, “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch” (essay)
• Franki Valli and the Four Seasons, “Sherry,” “December, 1963,” “Grease,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry” (music)

6/30/20

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” (poem)
• Ann Petry, “In Darkness and Confusion” (story)
• Otis Redding, “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” Emmylou Harris, “Get Up John,” John Prine, “Spanish Pipedream,” The Cox Family, “I am Weary (Let Me Rest), Don Williams & Emmylou Harris, “If I Needed You” (music)
• Terry Tempest Williams, “The Clan of the One-Breasted Women” (essay)

7/1/20

• Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook” (essay)
• Frank Marshall Davis, “Flowers of Darkness” (poem)
• John Collier, “Bottle Party” (story)
• Willie Nelson (featuring Leon Russell), “Heartbreak Hotel,” Little Richard, “Rip It Up,” “Dusty Springfield, “Son of a Preacher Man,” Joni Mitchell, “California,” Tom Waits, “Hope I Don’t Fall in Love with You” (music)

7/2/20

• Guy de Maupassant, “The Necklace” (story)
• Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabell Lee” (poem)
• James Baldwin, “Autobiographical Notes” from Notes of a Native Son (essay)
• Beyoncé, “Pray You Catch Me,” “Hold Up,” “Daddy Lessons,” “Formation,” “All Night” (music)

7/3/20

• Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers, “Island in the Storm,” Okay Kaya, “Mother Nature’s a Bitch,” Steve Earle & Rodney Crowell, “Stay a Little Longer,” Evie Gallagher, “Stay a Little Longer,” Rodney Crowell, “Bluebird Wine,” “Silent Night,” Steve Earle, “Darlin’ Commit Me,” “Mercenary Song,” “Elijah’s Church,” Phoebe Bridger, “Smoke Signals,” “Motion Sickness,” “Funeral,” “Demi Moore,” “Scott Street” (music)
• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, “The Fortune Teller” (story)
• Audre Lorde, “Between Ourselves,” Waring Cuney, “No Images” (poems)
• Lizzie Presser, “Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It.” (essay)

7/4/20

• Fredrick Douglass, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” (essay)
• Claude McKay, “White House,” “America” (poems)
• Toni Cade Bambara, “The Lesson,” and Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl” (stories)
• Phoebe Bridgers, “Killer,” “Georgia,” “Chelsea,” and from Spring Awakening: The Musical, “Mama Who Bore Me” (original and reprise)

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