Akron Children's Hospital is a pioneer in a growing field of medicine that uses creative writing to help patients and ...

This week, the call is for poems that tell stories, one way or another. For perhaps as long as we have been making poems, we have used them for this purpose. We can certainly trace the narrative ...

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 ...

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 ...

214pp, Etruscan Books/Word Power Books, £9.95 Political poetry often fails because poets set it apart from their other work, as though it were a genre. Bad political poems have a way of announcing ...

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, ...

Justine Kurland, “Family Portrait at Family Campground” (2009) (all images courtesy the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash) The following email exchange with the photographer Justine Kurland focuses on ...

PJ Harvey has announced a new narrative poem titled Orlam. The singer-songwriter wrote on her official website that the book is “the product of six years’ intense writing”, confirming a publication ...