What makes a prose poem? How would you go about writing one? How do you tell a successful prose poem from a mere chunk of prose? Learn all about this paradoxical verse form and write some prose poems ...

Before introducing something like a Shakespearean play, it’s helpful to guide students to explore other artworks with similar themes.

Prose poetry is a literary form that combines elements of prose and poetry to create a unique narrative voice and style. It appears as standard prose, without line breaks, but utilizes poetic devices ...

When Brad Leithauser, now a professor in the Writing Seminars, came across an article about Iceland in 1984—years before the country's emergence in the late 1990s as a hip tourist spot—he knew he had ...

My Feelings: Poems, Nick Flynn's new collection, starts with an epigraph from Emily Dickinson, and like her, he isn't kidding around. When you have been through a lot, "You cannot fold a Flood—/And ...

Book One was my very first work. I was a fiction writer and had graduated some years ago with an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. I did not yet see myself as a poet. After attempts at ...

Sandra Kingery, Ph.D., Logan A. Richmond Endowed Professor and chair of the department of modern language studies at Lycoming College, and 18 students in her upper-level Spanish translation class ...

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 ...