This month you might notice something a little different about the Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs. For October, instead of the personal stories about health care that readers typically ...

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 ...

Recently, the Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs held a poetry contest – our second ever. We had a wonderful response, with more than 170 poems submitted. The winning poems are published in ...

PJ Harvey is releasing a new book-length narrative poem, Orlam, due out in April of 2022 via Picador Poetry. It was written over the course of six years, in the traditional Dorset dialect, and the ...

One of the basic characteristics of a Romance poem or poetry is that it usually or more often, comes in an epic form or in ballads or idylls. It also usually, tells of the chivalry of which ...

Grade-schoolers who need to read a novel quickly will enjoy these novels that also are poems. They are not only fast reads, but they are fun to read aloud and give poetic insights into their ...

Sara Whym explores grief, identity, and creative awakening through a hybrid narrative of dreams, memory, and emotional ...

JOHN BROWN’S BODY—Stephen Vincent Benét—Doubleday Doran ($2.50). The Poem. Rustic Homer and urban Virgil used roundly to invoke the muses before composing an epic. Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, however, ...