In his delightful and important book on formal metrics, “Poetic Meter & Poetic Form,” Paul Fussell devotes an entire chapter to free verse because he believes this modern departure from the ...

If you're looking for Sunday reading and you are in the mood for a good jeremiad, try Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist, a novel/polemic that argues for the supremacy not only of rhyming poetry, but ...

Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming has won a pair of major literary awards, including a National Book Award. Robin Platzer / Twin Images - AP When children’s author Jacqueline Woodson began ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who ...