To my mind, a lot of modern poetry, so-called, is simply prose, broken up in short lines to give the appearance of poetry. Incidentally, even Homer nodded, as the saying goes. Anthony Cronin records ...

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 ...

Mario Cuomo once famously remarked, "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." This metaphor, highlighting the shift from rhetoric to reality, applies to various contexts. A good example is the ...

Edited by Gary L. McDowell and F. Daniel Rzicznek, Rose Metal (SPD, dist.), $16.95 paper (224p) ISBN 9780978984885 "I’m not sure it matters all that much whether some poems are lined or not,” notes ...

As much as we poetry lovers might not like to admit it, poetry does tend to garner far less fanfare than its literary cousin: prose. The opportunities to recognize and celebrate mainstream fiction and ...

A new collection of Mahadevi Varma’s prose writings, ‘Portraits from Memory’ translated by Ruth Vanita, reveals her as a seasoned, unhurried observer of people ...

Keeley, a 1949 alumnus, joined Princeton’s faculty in 1954 and transferred to emeritus status in 1994. He taught English, creative writing, comparative literature and translation at Princeton for 40 ...

My love affair with poetry began as a slow simmer — I long considered myself strictly a prose type of gal, leaving the iambic pentametric musings to what I imagined were elbow-patch-wearing and ...