In “The Confinement of Free Verse” (May, 1987), Mr. Brad Leithauser argues that the poet makes a “prosodic contract” with the reader and that as free verse makes no such contract it is bankrupt. I ...

Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming has won a pair of major literary awards, including a National Book Award. Robin Platzer / Twin Images - AP When children’s author Jacqueline Woodson began ...

TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92. Tanikawa, who translated the ...