(Online) The Best American Poetry 2020

Discover, read and discuss poems from the 2020 edition of The Best American Poetry. Guest editor Paisley Rekdal writes in her introduction:

“The poems I chose for this anthology did not comfort me. I did not want them to. [...] If anything, these poems—and others that I read during lockdown—gave me a greater feeling and awareness of those painful shards of time. That lyric instance of now, being present now; experiencing, through the reading of poetry, someone else’s now.”

Class participants will write their own poems in response to the themes and forms encountered, striving to innovate and investigate. New writers welcome.

Chloe holds an MA from Northern Arizona University and an MFA in Poetry from Colorado State University. A former CSU English Instructor, she currently teaches community and elementary school enrichment creative writing classes. Leisure was the 2014 Fort Collins Poet Laureate and is the author of The End of the World Again.

Notes

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“I have had several classes with Chloe and continue to find teaching skills amazing. She always makes clear what she is looking for from students and she engenders enthusiasm in students so that they are willing to take risks and make strong efforts.”