The Best American Poetry edition of 2004 is filled with an abundance of astounding poems published that year. After a considerable amount of discussion we decided on three poems in our volume that particularly spoke to us while reading them. These three poems include “20 questions” by Alan Bernheimer, “Chicken” By Kim Addonizio, and “Dog…
American Culture and Poetry in the Internet Age
By lindseylf
Poem Bomb: Kim Addonizio’s “Chicken”
“He’s headed for a farmhouse / where kind people will feed him.” I posted “Chicken” on the door to Performance, my physical therapy location, because I spend more time there than in school.
Completely Subjective: Alan Bernheimer’s “20 Questions”
“20 Questions” by Alan Bernheimer was originally published in the SHINY and the Forward and then later on published in The Best American Poetry volume for 2004. Alan was born in NYC which is why the first question came to him on 9/11/2001. The entire poem was spakred on September 11, 2001 when someone said…
Her “Poem”: Five Questions with Noelle Kocot
Noelle Kocot was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She now is a professor at The New School in New York City which she commutes to from New Jersey, where she resides now. She has been teaching at The New School since 2005. In her career as poet she has written seven collections of…