NO ONE EXPECTED the huge response that "Can Poetry Matter?" generated, especially not its author. I wrote the essay to address -- as directly and candidly as possible -- the increasing cultural ...

Our columnist looks at what it all meant. By Elisa Gabbert I wonder if there has ever been more equivocation about the word ...

Samuel Levin ("The Analysis of Compression in Poetry," Foundations of Language 7 [1971]), 38-55) has argued that Riffaterre's early "superreader" is an inadequate tool for analyzing the "poetic" ...

An established journal of literary criticism publishing substantial essays reflectinga variety of critical approaches and covering all periods of literary history. Publisher Information Founded in ...

If the release of Nelson Mandela in February 1990 signaled the imminent collapse of apartheid, what did the prospect of massive social change mean for South African poetry, a poetry for many years ...

Originally from Japan, the haiku has won appreciation around the world. This short form of poetry has its roots in earlier forms like waka and linked verse, but developed its own identity over ...