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 ...
Sunday marks the 46th anniversary of the date I obtained both my MLS (Masters of Library Science) and my Mrs. The first degree was awarded after advanced study of the science of how to catalog books ...
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 ...
In her new collection of prose poetry, “Alt-Nature,” Saretta Morgan engages with the desert and the waters to meditate on love, violence, injustice, Blackness, and queerness. By intimately feeling the ...
From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a new study ...
Somewhere between the hack writer living off the slicks and the "divine afflatus" genius penning prose lyrics incomprehensible to all but himself, lies the elusive middle road that all young writers ...
Who glorifies poets better than Latin American novelists? For Roberto Bolaño, Valeria Luiselli, César Aira, Isabel Allende, and José Lezama Lima, bards are politically oppressed geniuses, horny teens, ...
With her vulnerability on full display, Cameron Mouton passes the pen along to her readers and encourages them to write their own narrative. The third-year American literature and culture student ...
St. Clair Shores Poet Laureate M.L. Liebler says not to expect lofty, cryptic poetry and prose at this weekend’s Literary Walk at Blossom Heath Park. “This is not an academic event and there is no ...