A poem found in an old desk at the Barnstable transfer station turned up a story that crosses time and distance. Was it fated ...
Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a home poem.
Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.
Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...
One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — ...
Save your money on expensive Hallmark cards, and instead make a personalized card using artificial intelligence.
Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Poems aren’t pictures, but sometimes they try to make us see, and to make us feel in ways we might associate with acts of seeing. Some poems evoke the drama of ...
By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.
By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...
The Benzie Area Historical Society Museum and the Oliver Arts Center announce the opening of Artifactory 2025, the place where poetry meets history. The event offers an inclusive platform for poets of ...
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Is poetry useless?
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...