Over the course of Modern Poetry, we read a number of highly ranked poems. Having been assigned the 2009 edition of Best American Poetry, we selected three that truly captured our interest. Martha Silano’s “Love,” Denise Duhamel’s “How it Will End,” and Thomas Lux’s “The Happy Majority” were the poems that we found intriguing and…

Originally published in the 2008 summer edition of the Cimarron Review, Christine Marshall’s “Sweat“ discusses a subject that most readers can relate to. The ten stanza, free verse poem was selected to appear in the 2009 edition of The Best American Poetry. My first thought about “Sweat” was similar to that of the quote that introduces the…