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 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 ...

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 ...

Joal Hetherington in her writing studio in Kittery Point, Me. This week on The Bookshelf from NHPR is author Joal (Jody) Hetherington. The prose poem is a rare literary hybrid—the music of poetry ...

Sandra Kingery, Ph.D., Logan A. Richmond Endowed Professor and chair of the department of modern language studies at Lycoming College, and 18 students in her upper-level Spanish translation class ...

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: ...

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 ...

First up, a bit of media news: Vox Media buys New York Magazine. Michael Dirda revisits E.V. Odle’s The Clockwork Man. Is it a serious work of science fiction or slapstick? The MacArthur “Genius” ...

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This week’s Bookshelf is about a gorgeous new book of poetry, an update on the Townsend Prize for Fiction and a special “choir” for lovers of books and indie bookstores. Happy Pub Day: One of the ...

April is National Poetry Month and a good time to consider beginning a poetry writing practice for yourself and/or your clients. Poetry is a powerful creative endeavor that keeps us in the moment and ...