Updated August 15, 2026 · Prose & Poetry Editorial TeamDanil Rudoy’s “The Mastery of Rhyme” is a six-stanza poem about the ethics and labor of poetic craft. Rhyme begins as an art the speaker claims to master, then becomes a test of conscience, endurance, taste...
Updated August 15, 2026 · Prose & Poetry Editorial TeamDanil Rudoy’s “The Saturnine Birthday” turns a birthday into a six-part reckoning with absence, artistic memory, grief, age and renewal. Forty-eight rhymed lines move from guests who cannot arrive through...
Updated August 15, 2026 · Prose & Poetry Editorial Team Danil Rudoy’s “Confidence” is a four-line dialogue about agency and self-knowledge. Three questions move from action to Providence and finally to self-confidence. The poem’s brevity gives every answer the...
Updated August 15, 2026 · Prose & Poetry Editorial Team Danil Rudoy’s “Friday Night,” written in Fall 2009 and collected in Love Is Poetry, stages mortality as a compact game of chance. Seven quatrains move through stake, die, card and wheel; a final tercet leaves...
Updated August 14, 2026 · Prose & Poetry Editorial Team Personification gives human or living qualities to an object, abstraction, force, place, animal, or other nonhuman subject. A poem may let Death speak, allow Time to pursue a lover, make a city judge its...
