Recently, the Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs held a poetry contest – our second ever. We had a wonderful response, with more than 170 poems submitted. The winning poems are published in ...

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, ...

“A life-size statue of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, a prominent Bengali poet during the 19th century Bengal renaissance, was found defaced in Raniganj of West Bengal’s Purba Bardhaman district on Saturday ...

Narrative means story. So a narrative poem is a poem that tells a story. There is often no narrative in poetry because poems are generally about thoughts or emotions, rather than stories. But in a ...

The cultural, emotional, and sensory aspects of the human experience are reflected by food as an effective metaphor in literature. Let’s read some narrative style poetry that will describe the dishes ...

Last month, the Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs held a poetry contest—from March 26 to April 22 to be exact—in honor of National Poetry Month. We were looking for well-crafted poems that ...