Poetry can express thoughts and emotions in freeing and insightful ways that prose simply cannot. For those who have never ...

What weeping face is that looking from the window? Why does it stream those sorrowful tears? Is it for some burial place, vast and dry? Is it to wet the soil of graves? This poem is written in free ...

In his delightful and important book on formal metrics, “Poetic Meter & Poetic Form,” Paul Fussell devotes an entire chapter to free verse because he believes this modern departure from the ...

Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming has won a pair of major literary awards, including a National Book Award. Robin Platzer / Twin Images - AP When children’s author Jacqueline Woodson began ...

If you're looking for Sunday reading and you are in the mood for a good jeremiad, try Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist, a novel/polemic that argues for the supremacy not only of rhyming poetry, but ...

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...