Poetry was a highly developed genre during the Tang dynasty and its frequent use as a narrative tool is indeed one of the unique textual characteristics of the fiction of that period. One form in which the interaction between poetry and fiction took place was works of fiction relating stories about poets and their works, a form that was particularly prevalent during the middle and late Tang periods. This paper will discuss the narrative style of this particular form of fiction by looking at the Benshi shi 本事詩 and the Yunxi youyi 雲溪友議, two works that best represent fiction dealing with poetry. As both of these works, for the most part, tell stories about poems, there is a certain amount of ambiguity as to how they should be classified, i.e, whether they are fiction or poetical critiques. By looking at the narrative technique of "responding to events with poems" 觸事興詠, we will attempt to explain the reason behind this ambiguity. Attention to this narrative technique will also allow us to understand the form that the interaction between event and poem in these stories takes, and to further examine both the particular ways in which event and poem interact and the narrative effects created thereby. Based on our analysis of narrative content and form, we will then discuss the relationship between the Benshi shi and the Yunxi youyi on the one hand, and shixu 詩序, shihua 詩話, and other works of fiction during the Tang dynasty that incorporate poetry and narrative on the other. We conclude that this type of fiction in fact represents a narrative form of Tang dynasty fiction whereby the narrative is completed by the interaction between poem and event. By defying classification into a single genre and by blurring the distinction between the historical and fictional, this unique narrative form builds on the previous tradition of the shixu and opens up the way for the later shihua genre.