Poetry and Fiction

I will be reading from my new book of poetry, <<The Threshold of Broken Waters>>

at a workshop on poetry and fiction. I think that poetry adds vivacity to a fiction piece

by emphasizing the images that are contained in the piece. On the other hand, fiction

adds a narrative trend to poetry and allows it to be developed in the poem.

Although a poem's length cannot accommodate a very long piece of fiction,

it can still maintain a narrative thread and develop suspense and verisimilitude.

I have decided to read poems with a narrative content from a series of poems

which deal with my son's birth, his childhood, his traumas, and their resolution.