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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...

On Sundays, I read the poem in the magazine section of the New York Times, spending as much time as necessary to understand what the poet is saying or what esoteric feeling he is trying to convey, or ...