Tuesday, 24 January: conclude Irving, begin James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, chapters 1-3 (pages 1-35 in Penguin Classics edition.)

Reader: Becky Mobley

Thursday, 26 January: Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, through chapter thirteen (through p. 133 in Penguin Classics edition.)

Reader: Julie O’Gea

Thursday, 9 February: Ralph Waldo Emerson, introduction + opening 5 pages of Nature), opening 5 pages of “Self-Reliance,”  “Concord Hymn.”

Reader: Kate Barrack

Thursday, 16 February: Harriet Ann Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

Reader: Neelam Damani

Thursday, 23 February: Henry David Thoreau, introduction + “Resistance to Civil Government”

Reader: Joe Myers

Tuesday, 7 March: Edgar Allan Poe.  Introduction.  “Sonnet—To Science”; “Romance”; “The City in the Sea”; “Annabel Lee.”

Reader: Cana Hauerland

Tuesday, 21 March: Nathaniel Hawthorne, introduction +  “The Minister’s Black Veil.”

Reader: Bill Wolfe

Thursday, 23 March: Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown.”

Reader: Amanda Hanne

Tuesday, 11 April: Hawthorne, from Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln, “Gettysburg Address” + “Second Inaugural Address.” 

Reader: Susanne Brooks

Thursday, 13 April: Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”

Reader: Susan Hooks

Thursday, 20 April: Emily Dickinson: “I never lost as much but twice”; “These are the days when Birds come back—”; “Come Slowly—Eden!”; “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”; “I reason, Earth is short—”; “The Soul selects her own Society—”; “It sifts from Leaden Sieves—”; Letters to T.W. Higginson

Reader: Heidi Gerke

Tuesday, 25 April: Dickinson, third meeting

Reader: Miriam Rodriguez