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…
“The Happy Majority” by Thomas Lux posted in St. John’s Cemetery in Darien, CT.
Debora Greger is an American Poet and artist. Raised in Richland, Washington, she went on to receive education from the University of Washington and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has published multiple books, such as “By Herself” and “Men, Women, and Ghosts”. Greger has also won various awards for her pieces, such as the Award…
Though Debora Greger’s “Eve in the Fall” was originally published in “The New Criterion” during April of 2008, I stumbled across it in my 2009 edition of “Best American Poetry”. In the poem, Greger connects images of nature and the season of autumn together to convey the feeling of hopelessness and the act of losing…
I would drown out everything going on in the world simply by plugging my headphones in and putting the volume on full blast. The train rocked back and forth, skidding to the occasional bumpy stop about every 20 minutes or so. I’d look out the window, constantly being reminded that after a week that felt…
