The Unfinished Soul is an eclectic bag of goodies. Bestselling author Calvin Miller refers to this book as a collection of “bits and pieces of my life.” As he implies, it’s a mixed bag of goodies: ...

Connecticut Poets’ Corner is a monthly feature highlighting the poetry of Connecticut authors. Poets are selected by Ginny Lowe Connors, former poet laureate of West Hartford. In high school, Arthur ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Idea of Perfection: The Prose and Poetry of Paul Valéry, translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody (image courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux) In his 1919 essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your ...

Angela Jackson has been privately writing prose almost as long as the poetry for which she is renowned. Now she has published Where I Must Go, an autobiographical first novel 40 years in the making, ...

Louis Jenkins, a longtime Duluth poet who drew inspiration from the northern landscape, died Saturday, the morning of the winter solstice. Called "one of the masters" of the prose-poem form by ...

“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 ...

“Poetry leaves something out,” our columnist Elisa Gabbert says. But that’s hardly the extent of it. By Elisa Gabbert I once heard a student say poetry is language that’s “coherent enough.” I love a ...