CBS News: "Tortured Poets" and people who love the art of prose can immerse themselves at the Poetry Foundation and Chicago Public Library
"Tortured Poets" and people who love the art of prose can immerse themselves at the Poetry Foundation and Chicago Public Library
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
Lansing State Journal: Haslett author's fourth book an entertaining collection of poetry and prose
"Passage (With Frequent Stops)" by Haslett author Joyce Benvenuto is an intriguing and highly entertaining collection of poetry and prose. Benvenuto aptly notes in her brief introduction: "I give you ...
Hartford Courant: CT Poets’ Corner: The prose poetry of Charles Rafferty reflects life’s tiny moments
CT Poets’ Corner: The prose poetry of Charles Rafferty reflects life’s tiny moments