In my opinion, one great poem from the 2015 Best American Poetry volume is “Eating Walnuts” by Jennifer Keith. This structurally symmetrical, 4 stanza, 16 line poem talks about the ins and outs of properly eating a walnut. Keith goes on to portray the proper way to crack open a walnut underlying an important message…
American Culture and Poetry in the Internet Age
By Brian Minicus
Completely Subjective: Saeed Jones’s “Body & Kentucky Bourbon”
In Best American Poetry 2015 book of poems written by Saeed Jones, “Body & Kentucky Bourbon” stuck out to me. Jones published this in 2014 in Prelude to Bruise, a novel of poems he originally published in 2014. Having won the Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry in 2015 and being nominated for National Book Critics…