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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

Mary Ruefle's careful, measured sentences sound as if they were written by a thousand-year-old person who is still genuinely curious about the world. All of it. Trees. Crumbs. Doors. The all-consuming ...

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