The Atlantic

Poetry and the Stage

READERS whose interest persists in the parlous question of the modern stage are likely to have read, not long ago, Mr. Gosse’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly on Poetic Drama, and Mr. Corbin’s article ...
The Bulletin

A.S. Maulucci: Dramatic poetry still has audience; it needs a voice

Poetry on stage — or poetic drama — is a natural extension of poetry on the page. The ancient Greeks wrote their great tragedies and comedies in verse, as did the Romans. Medieval morality plays such ...
The New York Times

BOOKS OF VERSES, BOTH OLD AND NEW; They Are Many, and Dramatic Poetry and Ballads Seem to be the Preferred Forms.

For poetry-dramatic poetry above all-is no more the vision of a life that is dead than it is a criticism of the life that now is. Rather it is interpretation-life itself got into perspective, so that ...
The Atlantic

The Poet as Playwright

ONE would feel happier about the future of poetry on the stage were it not for the defensiveness of those who proclaim it. Poetry had used the theatre and the theatre had used poetry for thousands of ...
CultureMap

The Ensemble Theatre presents Drama-try: A Night of Dramatic Poetry

The Ensemble Theatre’s Act One Young Professionals celebrate National Poetry Month with their 7th Annual Poetry Event entitled: Drama-try[Tree]: A Dramatic Night of Poetry. Dramatry is a night of ...
Hindustan Times

Ladies in read: Inside a dramatic new collection of sacred poetry by women

goad me to read the Kalma, the Purana. That’s from a devotional poem by Peero, a courtesan who fled the kothis of 19th-century Lahore, driven by love for a man from another faith, the Sikh mystic Guru ...