The complete online text of Poems by Denis Florence MacCarthy.

The prose poem is a poem written in prose rather verse, which makes it a weird hybrid, an anomalous genre. It avails itself of the elements of prose (what Dryden called "the other harmony of prose") while foregrounding the devices of poetry. Prose poems...

PHILIP LARKIN once wrote that "what I want readers to carry away from the poem in their minds is not the poem, but the experience; I want them to live something through the poem, without necessarily being conscious of the poem as a poem."...

Michael and Carl Lund grew up in a house with a priceless document on a hall wall: an unpublished poem by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet William Carlos Williams.The poem, "About a Little Girl," is slightly yellowed and is in the same frame that their mother put...

Printed part way down page 3 of the Troy Sentinel on Dec. 23, 1823, it was easy to miss.Between beekeeping tips and a wedding announcement was a seasonal poem. Submitted anonymously, the poem charmed editors who published it anyway. It started like this:"'Twas the night...