The goal for us is to choose three poems that represented our year of 2016. With this goal we found seven poems we liked then we narrowed it down to the three poems we thought represented our year the most. This year to us was more about storytelling and the three poems we picked really…
American Culture and Poetry in the Internet Age
By J. Merrifield
The Great Poem Series: Dana Gioia’s “Meet Me at the Lighthouse”
The Poem “Meet Me at the Lighthouse,” By Dana Gioia, in the 2016 BAP is a poem about reminiscing on the past. The Poem talks about how He misses the past, and wishes he could go back. I love how the poem is about the coast and how this was a place where they met,…
“Meet Me at the Lighthouse”: Seven Questions for Dana Gioia”
Dana Gioia was born in the suburb of LA in California, as he grew up his Father, Mexican-American Mother whom would recite poems to him, and now is a professor at the University of Southern California. Gioia is a publisher of 4 full-length collections of poetry, Pity the Beautiful (2012), Interrogations at Noon (2001), The Gods…
Completely Subjective: Charles Fort’s “One Had Lived in a Room and Loved Nothing”
The poem “One Had Lived in a Room and Loved Nothing,” By Charles Fort, at a first glance is not a long one at all. It is a nice and short one, however in this shorter poem there is a lot of meaning an connection that could be be made. I found a connection through this…