Dana Gioia was born in the suburb of LA in California, as he grew up his Father, Mexican-American Mother whom would recite poems to him, and now is a professor at the University of Southern California. Gioia is a publisher of 4 full-length collections of poetry, Pity the Beautiful (2012), Interrogations at Noon (2001), The Gods…
Anne Carson was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1950. She lived in Montreal for several years and now teaches ancient Greek for a living. Carson has written books like “Glass”, “Irony”, “God”, “Men in the off hours (Knopf, 2010), and “The Beauty of the Husband” . She has a great career of teaching at McGill…
James Tate published this in April 2012. Many of Tate’s poems are character driven featuring a narrator’s various encounters. This poem seems like another encounter between a man and his crazy wife. Tate once said about his characters, “but most often they’re in trouble, and they’re trying to find some kind of life.” It’s clear…
As I was looking through the selection of poems in the 2013 edition of “The Best American Poetry” One poem in particular grabbed my attention. Written by David Wagoner “Casting Aspersions” seems to be just as much a rebuttal to an attack on him as it is poem. Wagoner is the author of ten novels…
I turn my head towards the scoreboard, thoughts of a long season loom in my head about what could’ve been. We had one goal; to come out on top as champions, but the score said otherwise. It seemed as though months of hard work, sweat, and blood were all for nothing. My once burning passion…
This poem does not have a publication date but first appeared in London review books. Three tidbits that seem relevant in this poem. “What do you know about dark clouds? Ponds full of fallen leaves?” “Flapping your wings from tree to tree and carrying on like a crow” “Old model cars rusting in the driveway”…
Ever since I can remember, I have always been a very curious child. Why is the sky blue? How do fireflies make light? Do dogs see color or black and white? These are all questions I would constantly ask my mom, hoping she would have an answer that would blow my mind. Most of the…
The poem “One Had Lived in a Room and Loved Nothing,” By Charles Fort, at a first glance is not a long one at all. It is a nice and short one, however in this shorter poem there is a lot of meaning an connection that could be be made. I found a connection through this…
When looking at the title of the poem “Time” by Louise Glück , I thought it was about the complexity of time. But when reading it, not only did the poem explore the many facets of time, it also included some personal moments that I could relate to. The character of the poem was a sickly…
Advice for a Stegosaurus seems like a simplistic poem at first glance due to the short length of the poem and the easy to understand language, but it has a message that can be missed on a person’s first time reading it. The message is one that a lot of people can relate to because…
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