Critical Essays

During a six-month period when I first began writing poetry, I read three writers whose…

I I am reading a book called Wallace Stevens and the Actual World. I have…

A short story is closer to the poem than to the novel (I’ve said that…

Whenever people ask me when I started writing poetry, I am taken aback. It is…

Here are some backstories and roundabout comments on the ways short poems and prose poems…