IT IS usually dangerous for anyone whose gift is one art to attempt to follow another. The pitfalls of following poetry when your gift is prose are obvious enough to ...

American prose poetry—a tradition extending from Robert Bly to Lyn Hejinian—has finally come into its own. Although prose poems defy easy classification—they are, as the name indicates, neither ...

“Let the prose we write still rhyme,” said Zohran Mamdani in his victory speech after winning the New York City mayoral election. | Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images North America/ Getty Images via ...

My love affair with poetry began as a slow simmer — I long considered myself strictly a prose type of gal, leaving the iambic pentametric musings to what I imagined were elbow-patch-wearing and ...

“Antique Densities: Modern Parables & Other Experiments in Short Prose” by Jefferson Navicky; Deerbrook Editions, Cumberland, Maine, 2021; 104 pages, paperback, $18.50. In the introduction to his ...

John Liles. Yale Univ., Mar. 25 ($45, ISBN 978-0-300-27941-2) Science, the natural world, and the threat of climate change animate this debut from the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize.

The critic William Hazlitt (1778–1830), known best in his lifetime for his writing on Shakespeare, was a jack of all trades and a master of none too few, trying his deft hand at painting, philosophy, ...