Poems:

subreddits:

Short Stories: Curated for Awesomeness (reddit.com)

websites:

poets.org | Academy of American Poets (they have a poem-a-day newsletter available for free!)

collections:

· Ariel by Sylvia Plath

· Poem a Day: Volume 1

· Shakespeare’s Sonnets

· Book of Matches by Simon Armitage

· Staying Alive: real poems for unreal times

· Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge

Essays:

collections:

· The Art of the Personal Essay

· The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

· Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

· The Best American Essays of the Century

· Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

· Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace

Short Stories:

collections:

· Dubliners by James Joyce

· Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman

· The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

· Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

· The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

· Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro