Yolanda Perdomo is an award-winning journalist and a digital producer for CBS Chicago. Previously, Yolanda was a producer and reporter for WBEZ, WCPN, and WXXI. She namechecks famed poets, including ...

The critic William Hazlitt (1778–1830), known best in his lifetime for his writing on Shakespeare, was a jack of all trades and a master of none too few, trying his deft hand at painting, philosophy, ...

COLUMBUS, Ind. — The Columbus Area Arts Council will have a special “Open Mic Poetry & Prose” event from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Hotel Indigo. Local poet Skye Nicholson will host the evening, ...

St. Clair Shores Poet Laureate M.L. Liebler says not to expect lofty, cryptic poetry and prose at this weekend’s Literary Walk at Blossom Heath Park. “This is not an academic event and there is no ...

Who glorifies poets better than Latin American novelists? For Roberto Bolaño, Valeria Luiselli, César Aira, Isabel Allende, and José Lezama Lima, bards are politically oppressed geniuses, horny teens, ...

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 ...

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 ...

They say a politician campaigns in poetry and governs in prose. They might also say, less poetically, that a politician campaigns in his dreams and governs after waking. Voters tend to value eloquence ...

Sometimes poetry helps us understand truth that logical reasoning cannot. Describing the effects of a severe health crisis, Ben Palpant writes, “I could not track an argument in prose, but I could ...

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 ...

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 ...