Answer any ten:
Who is Helen Twelvetrees and what interests John Ashbery in her?
How many prose poems are in The Best American Poetry 2008?
What is the connection between Dmitri Karamazov, the Battle of the Somme, and Emily Dickinson’s gardener?
In whose poem are leaves torn from Genesis to cover the genitalia of a man and a woman who would otherwise be "naked as newborns"?
Of all the poems Charles Simic published in 2007, which did Charles Wright choose for the 2008 edition of BAP?
"The cells divide. The cells that will not die" is the first line of a
(1) pantoum
(2) villanelle
(3) prose poem
(4) sonnet
(5) diatribe
What is the subject of Patti Smith’s poem "Tara"?
Who said it: "How splendid yellow is!"
(1) Peter Paul Rubens
(2) Vincent Van Gogh
(3) Willa Cather
(4) Isaac Babel
(5) Su Tung P’o
According to Maxine Kumin, when will the Messiah come?
Why is Frank Bidart’s sestina only 36 lines long?
In her double sonnet "Millay Goes Down," Moira Egan addresses
(1) Edna St Vincent Millay
(2) Oral sex
(3) The idea of capturing chaos in fourteen lines.
(4) The search for the fountain of youth.
(5) All of the above.
There is one sure-fire way to gets the answers: they’re in the 2008 edition of The Best American Poetry.