Since I was a child my head was filled with stories of princes and princesses, knights and vast castles, kings and queens ruling over their lands. Five year old me was truly happiest, thinking that happy endings always existed in the world. I will say television and books really fed my impressionable little mind, but…
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…
Danielle DeTiberus, born in Connecticut, teaches creative writing at the Charleston School of the Arts. In 2016, she received a poetry fellowship from the South Carolina Academy of Authors. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Arts & Letters, Missouri Review, Rattle, River Styx, The Southeast Review, Spoon River Poetry Review and elsewhere. She…
James Galvin’s “On the Sadness of Wedding Dresses” is featured in the 2015 volume of The Best American Poetry, first published in The Iowa Review. The poem revolves around the tragic stories of wedding dresses after “their one heroic day in the limelight”. It creates a depressing mood around the concept of a wedding dress…