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.

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 ...

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.

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

PJ Harvey's new album, I Inside The Old Year Dying, builds off of a narrative poem she wrote about a year in the life of a 9-year-old girl in a fictional town in western England.

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 ...