The 2014 edition of Best American Poetry with guest editor, Terrance Hayes, is filled with poems that many, especially Mr. Hayes, would consider to be “great.” Because of this, the choice of finding the three greatest poems from this volume was an extremely difficult task. In the process, I decided to focus on the poems…
“It’s lonely in a song / about outer space. / When I don’t have any thoughts, / I want one!” Posted in the “Chill Zone” at DHS.
Steve Scafidi, who hails from West Virginia, is an award winning poet who has been featured in the 2014 edition of Best American Poetry. Some of his awards include the James Boatwright Prize, the Larry Levis Reading Prize, and the Miller Williams Prize. He has published four books in his lifetime, titled “Sparks from a nine-pound…
Featured in the 2014 edition of Best American Poetry, Cate Marvin’s, “An Etiquette for Eyes”, analyzes a man with blues eyes who the speaker, a brown-eyed woman, had tried to win over in a bar. In it she reveals the pain she feels from her breakup with her past partner. I view the poem almost…
New York City happens to be one of my favorite places on this earth; I have a certain fondness for cities in general. While I love the atmosphere cities provide though, there are some negatives when it comes to the people themselves. Cities, especially New York City, tend to get a bad reputation considering the…