“The prose poem has achieved an unprecedented level of popularity among American poets,” writes David Lehman, a poet and the series editor of the Best American Poetry series, published by Scribner. He ...

A work of biography, an essay on literature and memory and the South, a prose poem full of lyrical dexterity, Trethewey’s latest book is like all of her others: a master study of the self. If, as Zora ...

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Last night the rollers called to us from the backyard of our house on a bluff overlooking the harbor known as First Landing. It’s the budding time and cherry blossoms and horseshoe crabs signal ...

When Cyprus Mail published “A poem for Cyprus” in honor of Independence Day, it underscored something many on the island instinctively understand: poetry is not confined to classrooms or literary ...

This whimsical selected brings prolific prose poet Edson’s “inverse world” to a contemporary audience. In these surprising pages, domestic spaces and familiar figures are rendered in a surreal light.

You're probably well familiar with the many ways people have been coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, such as socially-distanced music performances, reconnecting with nature and more frequent telephone ...