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…
American Culture and Poetry in the Internet Age
By Christina Chalis
The Great Poem Series: James Galvin’s “On the Sadness of Wedding Dresses”
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…