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 ...

It is believed, traditionally, that to qualify as poetry any writing must have three traits it is versified, it has something creative and worthwhile to say and it is intentional. The first condition ...

Poetry and prose are two fundamental forms of written expression, each with its own style, structure, and purpose. While both aim to convey meaning and evoke emotion, the way they achieve this differs ...

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 ...

There is no novel as deep and dark as a Russian novel, no poetry more searingly confessional than Russian poetry, no drama more obsessed with plumbing the depths of the soul than Russian drama.

When we think of storytelling, we often categorize literature into clear genres like prose or poetry. However, some remarkable works manage to transcend this division, blending poetic language with ...