“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 ...

Shirley Rickett’s Tales weaves memoir and poetry into an unflinching life story shaped by memory, art, and the questions that linger after growing up. This book is my attempt to give voice to the ...

You'll never lose by picking up any book with Harold Bloom's name on it. (As Bob Dylan sings on his new album, "I say it so it must be so.") And I mean everything from the monumental ("The Western ...

We’re starting a new weekly column today, designed to give you a little literary treat: a different poem each Friday. “American Life in Poetry,” the column’s title, is supported by The Poetry ...

Poets, public figures, and everyday Americans join host Elisa New to read American poems. Poetry in America explores the diversity of American poetry. In each episode, members of various American ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Eight new half-hour episodes of Poetry in America will begin airing on public ...

At a ministerial meeting I at­tended last fall, a pastor shared with the group that he’d used his summer vacation to read through the back issues of the Christian Century that were stacked in a pile ...