Edward Albee
   The Sand Box**

John Barth
   The Sot-Weed Factor

Gwendolyn Brooks
   A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon**
   The Bean Eaters
   The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmet Till**
   We Real Cool**
Emmett Till

Frank Chin
   Railroad Standard Time**

Pietro Di Donato
   Immigrant Saint: The Life of Mother Cabrini
   Three Circles of Light

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
   Her (novel)

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
   Bid Me to Live (A Madrigal)

Robert Lowell, Jr.
   For the Union Dead**
   Skunk Hour**

Flannery O'Connor
   The Violent Bear Is Away

Charles Olson
   The Distances

Sylvia Plath
   The Colossus

Thomas Pynchon
   Entropy**

Anne Sexton
   Her Kind**
   To Bedlam and Part Way Back

Gary Snyder
   Myths & Texts

Mario Suarez
   El Hoyo**
   Kid Zopilote**
   Senor Garza**

John Updike
   Rabbit, Run

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Civil Rights Act of 1960.

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Four freshmen at a Negro college in Greensboro, North Carolina, demand to be served at a Woolworth's lunch counter; sit-in movement begins (February 1).