Best American Poetry of 2015 was the newest version of BAP available to our class, which made it very interesting to see poetry written within the last two years. Our three favorite poems, “Bodhisattva”, “Eating Walnuts”, and “In Memory of My Parents Who Are Not Dead Yet”, are all very influential and complex. Each has its…
Jericho Brown is an Associate Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. First published in The New Testament (2014), “Homeland” was also published in the 2015 volume of Best American Poetry. “Homeland” is a testimony for all male African Americans in modern society. He expresses the brutally honest lifestyle of an African American male living…
“Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I’m still a reason why. / Every day, something gets thrown away on account of long / History or hair or fingernails or, yes, of course, my fangs.” This test subject, Darien High School senior Alex Kostrzewski, roamed the halls of the school as a mobile poem bomb.
John Hennessy, a New Jersey native studied at Princeton University on a Cane scholarship and received graduates degrees from The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Arkansas. He currently lives in Amherst, MA and teaches at the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of two poetry collections, Coney Island Pilgrims and…
Published in The Paris Review of Fall 2013 Charles Simic’s “So Early in the Morning” shows Simic’s emotion and reaction to the recent passing of friend. Simic was born in Yugoslavia and emigrated to the United States as a teenager. He spent the first eleven years of his life living through World War II and…
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