A work of biography, an essay on literature and memory and the South, a prose poem full of lyrical dexterity, Trethewey’s latest book is like all of her others: a master study of the self. If, as Zora ...

“The prose poem has achieved an unprecedented level of popularity among American poets,” writes David Lehman, a poet and the series editor of the Best American Poetry series, published by Scribner. He ...

Last night the rollers called to us from the backyard of our house on a bluff overlooking the harbor known as First Landing. It’s the budding time and cherry blossoms and horseshoe crabs signal ...

It’s January, January 21 to be precise, and I’ve stepped out onto the back porch to deposit the trash from the house in the can to wait for the deposit onto the truck to take it away, no muss no fuss ...

"Saturdays," is a book meant to be picked up with an early morning coffee or at the end of a long day. It invites readers to linger in bits and pieces, to open it at random, and to return to it as a ...

What do you mean, “write about me”? I have to work too and there are other things going on in my life, you know? But if I ever do find the time, I might write you a few letters. Letters with Angst ...

First up, a bit of media news: Vox Media buys New York Magazine. Michael Dirda revisits E.V. Odle’s The Clockwork Man. Is it a serious work of science fiction or slapstick? The MacArthur “Genius” ...

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 ...

When Brad Leithauser, now a professor in the Writing Seminars, came across an article about Iceland in 1984—years before the country's emergence in the late 1990s as a hip tourist spot—he knew he had ...

After receiving plaudits for his recent novels, Lerner returns to verse with an expansive new collection, “The Lights.” By Srikanth Reddy When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...