In our 2009 version of “Best American Poetry”, we selected three poems that spoke to both my partner, Lucas Thompson, and I. We believe that these poems tackle very important issues in the modern world, but they do so without being too complicated to understand. We believe that the poems we chose are both easily…
The goal of this activity is to find three poems from our Best American Poetry volume that we believe best speak to our generation. We took our three poems from the 2013 issue. 2013 was a very strong year for poetry, 2012 had passed and the world did not end, it was still very much…
The poems in the 2012 volume of Best American Poetry are highly relevant even in 2018 to high school students everywhere. “The Afterlife” by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, “Pill” by Bruce Bond, and “The Imagined” by Stephen Dunn are all poems that reflect today’s issues and are considered great. In 2012, our generation was only about…
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