Messages of hope and inspiration despite despair are carefully crafted within the world of poetry and prose, with words flying off the page and into one’s imagination. To bring the page-to-life ...

The critic William Hazlitt (1778–1830), known best in his lifetime for his writing on Shakespeare, was a jack of all trades and a master of none too few, trying his deft hand at painting, philosophy, ...

What a great way to start a new literary year. Six poets laureate from across Minnesota will participate Thursday in the ...

Connecticut Poets’ Corner is a monthly feature highlighting the poetry of Connecticut authors. Poets are selected by Ginny Lowe Connors, former poet laureate of West Hartford. In high school, Arthur ...

COLUMBUS, Ind. — The Columbus Area Arts Council will have a special “Open Mic Poetry & Prose” event from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Hotel Indigo. Local poet Skye Nicholson will host the evening, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Puerto Rican poet and playwright Miguel Algarín, who founded the groundbreaking Nuyorican Poets Café out of his Lower East Side apartment, and attracted an outspoken collection of artists and ...

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 ...