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 ...

When Brad Leithauser, now a professor in the Writing Seminars, came across an article about Iceland in 1984—years before the country's emergence in the late 1990s as a hip tourist spot—he knew he had ...

They say a politician campaigns in poetry and governs in prose. They might also say, less poetically, that a politician campaigns in his dreams and governs after waking. Voters tend to value eloquence ...

In an interview with Huffington Post , John Amen the author of five collections of poetry engages in the controversial Prose is better than poetry argument. In an interview with Huffington Post, John ...

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 ...

On April 30, Unbound Journal came out of its decade-long print hiatus to release a paperback collection titled “Unbound Volume XIV Spring 2024.” Unbound Journal is a University of Oregon-based, ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By David Orr SYNTHESIZING GRAVITY Selected Prose By Kay Ryan There’s something tricky about ...

To publish one acclaimed book in any given year is a rare accomplishment. But to publish two — one poetry, one prose — within a few months of each other is utterly remarkable. Yet that was the year ...