A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...

American prose poetry—a tradition extending from Robert Bly to Lyn Hejinian—has finally come into its own. Although prose poems defy easy classification—they are, as the name indicates, neither ...

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Colloquia Germanica, Vol. 56, No. 2/3, Themenheft: Below Genre: Short Forms and Their Affordances (2023), pp. 273-294 (22 pages) This paper will explore the effects of integrating short poetic forms ...