Carl Phillips is one America’s most original and influential poets. He was born in Everett Washington in 1959, and moved around frequently as a kid. He earned a BA from Harvard, an MAT from the University of Massachusetts, and an MA in creative writing from Boston University. He taught Latin at several high schools and…
Published in 2001 in The Paris Review, Adrienne Rich’s “The Architect” is a poem I feel that I understand on a personal level. This poem uses creative language and relatable topics to connect with the reader. I first read this poem while trying to find something to pitch to my class. I felt that Rich’s work was…
“20 Questions” by Alan Bernheimer was originally published in the SHINY and the Forward and then later on published in The Best American Poetry volume for 2004. Alan was born in NYC which is why the first question came to him on 9/11/2001. The entire poem was spakred on September 11, 2001 when someone said…
“Against the white wall after work and after dark … ” Posted on a visible wall inside Darien High School.
The author of this great poem is David Trinidad. Trinidad was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1953. He has published books like “Plasticville” (2000), “Phoebe” 2002, “An essay in verse”, 2003, “The late show”, 2007. ”Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems”, 2011, “Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera” 2013 and “Notes on a Past…
A.E Stallings is an american poet who has studied classics in Athens, Georgia and has after that lived in Athens, Greece since 1999. Stallings has published three books of poetry, the award winning ¨Archaic Smile¨ (1999), ¨Hapax¨ (2000) and ¨Olives¨ (2012). I got into this poem when I was reading through the BAP (Best American…
The Poem “Meet Me at the Lighthouse,” By Dana Gioia, in the 2016 BAP is a poem about reminiscing on the past. The Poem talks about how He misses the past, and wishes he could go back. I love how the poem is about the coast and how this was a place where they met,…
“It’s like collecting sky / You got to go out every day.” Posted in Gopher Ice Cream, Darien, Connecticut.
People, including myself, sometimes live in the imaginary side of the world. I think about unrealistic circumstances where I always come out on top. I dream about things that are unrealistic. These things range from the topics of sports to aspects of my daily life. Last Saturday, I sat in my bed thinking about the…
“Death comes in the form of a horse in shining equations.” Posted in the DHS English/Social Studies Learning Connections.
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