Spotlight Poet Octavio Paz
A Nobel Prize-winning poet, Paz was born in Mexico City. His literary mentors included Pablo Neruda, and he served as Mexico's ambassador to India in the 1960s.
Spotlight Poem Introduction to Poetry
by Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem / and hold it up to the light / like a color slide...
Spotlight Essay Mutable Boundaries: On Prose Poetry by Karen Volkman
Historically, the prose poem dates back over 150 years, but its popularity among American poets is a recent development.