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 ...

We have become a nation of prose readers. With all the choices out there -- romances, westerns, biographies, political rants ("I Ain't Got Time to Bleed") -- chunks of words divided up into lines are ...

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 ...

Somewhere between the hack writer living off the slicks and the "divine afflatus" genius penning prose lyrics incomprehensible to all but himself, lies the elusive middle road that all young writers ...

There are many reasons to celebrate this year’s centenary of Elizabeth Bishop’s birth, not least of which is the enduring power of her writing and that she led by and large a productive and happy life ...

Even before 19-year-old Caitlin Dolaghan died in 2006 of metastatic osteosarcoma — bone cancer — her life had become a model for how to live life fully in the moment under even the most seemingly ...

A recent online poll from Merriam-Webster invited visitors to name their favorite word. The answers that came back revealed a pronounced fondness for pejorative words that are fun to say, like ...

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 ...