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Will Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album “The Tortured Poets Department” usher in a new era of poetry appreciation? Delaney Atkins, a part-time instructor at Austin Peay State University who teaches a ...
For the latest "Morning Edition" community poem, Rachel Martin and poet Kwame Alexander ask listeners for poetry submissions. This round, the call-out is for poems in letter, or epistolary, form.
It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...
William Christie receives funding from the Australian Research Council for research into an entirely unrelated topic. If someone asked you how you felt and you said you had “a sense sublime of ...
Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.
This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Marilyn Singer, who divides her time between Brooklyn, New York and Washington, Connecticut. Marilyn has been a writer for fifty years and enjoys many ...
For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ ...
Just writing what happens, and knowing a lot of it won’t work and that what works will work not because of technique, mainly, ...
Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas? Where do poems come from? After my school assembly programs, I like to allow time for students and teachers to ask ...
One of the least discussed aspects of the AI language generator ChatGPT might be its ability to produce pretty awful poetry. Given how difficult it is to teach a computer how to recognize a syllable, ...