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.

A painting by Shen Zhou (1427-1509) inspired by his own collection of poems on fallen flowers. [Photo provided to China Daily] In August 1502, 75-year-old Shen Zhou, a cultural icon and painting ...

This month’s Narrative Matters poems, by Joy Jacobson, Deborah Fries, and Lisa Annelouise Rentz, touch on subjects as diverse as patient pathologies, an organ donor, and cancer treatment.

I’m a fan of narrative poems, poems that tell a story. As I see it, that’s how poetry started, with epic poems that had to be memorized to be passed down, as people didn’t have printing ...

Farai Chideya talks with Marilyn Nelson, poet laureate of Connecticut and author an emotional narrative poem on the death of Emmett Till. Nelson explains why she wrote the poem for young adults ...

The narrative poem is, according to the description, "set in a magic realist version of the West Country," and is the first book to be written in the Dorset dialect for decades. PJ Harvey's site ...

Former Topekan writes narrative poems about war combat 'Harm's Way Triology' focuses on Battle of Tarawa, Battle of Bull Run. Jan Biles.