As you might know from my previous entries I have been a part of Poetry Parnassus - the biggest gathering of poets in modern history. Nearly 200 poets representing Olympic nations came to London, not ...

The award for poetry this year went to Mark Strand for his book "Blizzard of One." It's Strand's ninth book of poetry. He has also published several books of translations, edited poetry anthologies, ...

Poetry is the art of making every word, every space, every line count: It requires its practitioners to be sure that every word is exactly the correct word and that it's in precisely the right place.

“All poetry is experimental poetry,” Wallace Stevens once said. And the world of contemporary poetry is much like the world of fantastical and science fictional prose narratives. And if you value ...

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 ...