The Best American Poetry edition of 2004 is filled with an abundance of astounding poems published that year. After a considerable amount of discussion we decided on three poems in our volume that particularly spoke to us while reading them. These three poems include “20 questions” by Alan Bernheimer, “Chicken” By Kim Addonizio, and “Dog…
We have examined each poem of Best American Poetry 2002 and have found Steve Malmude’s “Perfect Front Door,” Louise Gluck’s “Reunion,” and Ira Sadoff “Self-Portrait with Critic” to have messages that resonate the most with us. We have identified these poems as having accessible and meaningful language which compliments it’s meaning, making it worthy of…
In society today, the importance of poems and the popularity of them are decreasing. Less people are reading and writing these pieces; but after reading my 2002 volume of Best American Poetry, I came to realize that poems should still be read and interpreted by all. High School students, especially, can learn from and relate…
In our 2009 version of “Best American Poetry”, we selected three poems that spoke to both my partner, Lucas Thompson, and I. We believe that these poems tackle very important issues in the modern world, but they do so without being too complicated to understand. We believe that the poems we chose are both easily…
In the beginning of our school year, Drew, Sigurd and I were assigned the novel The Best American Poetry 2010 edition. During the 2010 year, most of us senior students were around the age of 10 years old and there were a couple notable events that had occurred in the would. The BP oil spill…
This year my partner and I looked through The Best American Poetry 2015 and narrowed it down to three poems we feel strongly about. The purpose of this assignment is to get high school students to take a look at these poems because we feel these three poems say something worthwhile to our generation. In…
The goal for us is to choose three poems that represented our year of 2016. With this goal we found seven poems we liked then we narrowed it down to the three poems we thought represented our year the most. This year to us was more about storytelling and the three poems we picked really…
The goal of this activity is to find three poems from our Best American Poetry volume that we believe best speak to our generation. We took our three poems from the 2013 issue. 2013 was a very strong year for poetry, 2012 had passed and the world did not end, it was still very much…
The poems in the 2012 volume of Best American Poetry are highly relevant even in 2018 to high school students everywhere. “The Afterlife” by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, “Pill” by Bruce Bond, and “The Imagined” by Stephen Dunn are all poems that reflect today’s issues and are considered great. In 2012, our generation was only about…
The goal was to choose three poems that speak to both Grace Fay and I. Then, we introduce these three poems to the class, hoping that they will be selected to be in our class anthology as voices of our senior year of 2018. Our poems were chosen from the 2001 edition of The Best…
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