Read the Southwest Review's 90th anniversary issue. Isabel Nathaniel's "The Beholder: A Tale" is given its own heading in the TOC, "short story in verse." If I'd noticed that distinction before I started reading the piece, I might not have been so irritated with its first three sections, which are tedious short story scene-setting.

While the poem is eventually lively in places, what's more exciting is to see hybrid genre writing crop up in an unexpected place. "Short story in verse." I want to try one.