April is National Poetry Month and in celebration the Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs is seeking poetry submissions for upcoming issues of the journal. We are holding a poetry contest from ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The art of storytelling is as old as human existence, and the earliest storytellers glorified their comrades bravery in battle or eulogized their fallen heroes in song and verse. Narrative poetry ...

In conjunction with the October issue of Health Affairs, which will focus on disability and health, the Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs is holding a poetry contest. The poetry contest will ...