Maggie Anderson: Poem Analysis

Maggie Anderson is an American poet and editor with roots in Appalachia. On Wednesday, October 4, 2016, she came into English 360 class to read some of her poems and surprise the class with a group poem activity. She was invited to West Liberty University and did a poetry reading before attending the class, but I was unable to attend that reading. She read two of the poems from the packet the class received ahead of time and also three more from a her book of poems she brought. The class was well behaved and to listen to Anderson read was relaxing. She though she is a soft reader, it was loud enough for the people in the back to hear. Though the temperature in the room is always freezing, listening intently to Anderson’s voice and her poems made one not realize how cold the room was. After the class asked a few good questions and I really enjoyed the in-class session Anderson had the class participate in, it was good practice and also the class applied what we have been learning.
While reading it to myself in the beginning of the week, there was just something about the poem that connected me to it. The smooth conversation the flows as you read it, and the organic text can pertain to anyone who reads it who works hard. Connecting with the piece is what really made me enjoy it out of all of them. The middling poems out of the ones that were read would have to be “The Wash in My Grandmother’s Arms”. The detail that paints the picture was fascinating and I could really picture the scene in which she was laying out for the listener/reader. The one poem that was my least favorite would have to be “Falling”. There is nothing majorly wrong about this poem to where I do not like it the most, it is personally just because I would not read poems about vegetables on my own time, so I did not find entertainment out of