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 ...

In his first collection of verse in over a decade, he applies the lessons of his successful, self-conscious prose. The Poor Poet, a painting by Carl Spitzweg (1808–1885). Who is Ben Lerner? Readers of ...

The winner in the Poetry Contest, judged by Ana Božičević, author of New Life (Wave Books, 2023), was William Moretti for his ...

You're probably well familiar with the many ways people have been coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, such as socially-distanced music performances, reconnecting with nature and more frequent telephone ...

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...