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, ...

In some quarters, poetry is seen as an archaic, rarified art. Tiana Clark’s immersive narrative poetry is anything but — it doesn’t flinch as it navigates uncomfortable issues ingrained in American ...

Narrative means story. So a narrative poem is a poem that tells a story. There is often no narrative in poetry because poems are generally about thoughts or emotions, rather than stories. But in a ...