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 ...

Louise Bernice Halfe is an award-winning Cree poet from Two Hills, Alta. Earlier this month, Halfe won the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize, which is given to a mid-career poet with a remarkable ...

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 ...

I HAVE seen it stated that, when Tennyson’s Princess was published in the United States, two generations ago, it was the best-selling book in the country, and that Patmore’s The Angel in the House, ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By David Orr SYNTHESIZING GRAVITY Selected Prose By Kay Ryan There’s something tricky about ...

To publish one acclaimed book in any given year is a rare accomplishment. But to publish two — one poetry, one prose — within a few months of each other is utterly remarkable. Yet that was the year ...