The reason why no very long poem would ever be popular again was simply that verse as a technique was passing out of fashion in every department of literature except that of lyric poetry.

Brenda Hillman is the author of eight collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Practical Water. She is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, Calif.

The most demanding long poems of our century-Pound`s ”Cantos,” Eliot`s ”Four Quartets,” Geoffrey Hill`s ”The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy”-have been poems of fragmentation ...

Galway Kinnell was often compared to his favorite poet, Walt Whitman, whose “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” Kinnell movingly read aloud every year on the far side of the Brooklyn Bridge at a benefit ...

Carl Adamshick has been writing poetry seriously for 20 years and in most of the time he found himself with shorter poems. That’s what you’ll find if you pick up his first collection ...

So I can read the first part of it, because it's a very long poem, so I won't read too much. And it is about the celebration in Guatemala, which is incredible.

Fractured through McCrae’s work, then, is what could be read as a very long poem that has appeared in parts through four books. There’s a purgatory, a heaven, and a hell.

In 2016, Jos Charles began writing a long poem called "a Year," which is broken up into sections by month. "Months allow one to consider time in discrete chunks while at the same time being very ...

He wrote, along with poems of more conventional lyric length, very short morsel poems and very long process poems, that last group sometimes providing a kind of “making of” documentary about ...

Living quietly in Fairfax, she devoted the bulk of her time to writing poetry.

But if people notice that it seems to be more lyrical, those songs seem to be more lyrical, more poetic, it's because when they came to me, they came to me in very long poem.

‘Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems,’ by Paul B. Janeczko and by Melissa Sweet April 1, 2014 More than 11 years ago By Kristi Elle Jemtegaard ...