As self-proclaimed president and vocal advocate for the “I Hate Poetry Club,” I wasn’t entirely sure why I was hunched over a computer in the Fishbowl, mumbling 24 lines of impassioned Shakespeare to ...
My accompaniment – in this, this. I believed that the my book had been finished after a visit to the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Co Monaghan. It was called Notes For Building A Ghost Flower, it had a ...
It's a rare poet who shuns publication; even rarer if that poet has undeniable talent. This long-overdue volume is ample evidence that Jack Spicer had much more to say than he professed and that his ...
Sasha Stiles turned GPT-2 experiments into a self-writing poem at a Museum of Modern Art installation—and a new way to think about text-generating AI optimization ...
Lakewood High School junior Allie Scott was quite surprised to learn her poem “Tension In The Elements” was selected as a winner of The Live Poets Society’s Just Poetry competition.
I hate sharing my poetry with people. I don’t mean that I get all sheepish and a little red in the face, but bashfully and begrudgingly do it anyway. No, I mean that I abhor it. It’s counterintuitive, ...
Saba Keramati, M.F.A. ’20, won the 2023 92NY Discovery Poetry Prize, a prize recognizing unpublished poets. (Courtesy) For Saba Keramati, M.F.A. ’20, poetry creates a fascinating alternate realm. “You ...
It's been a difficult year for many people. NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with poet Danez Smith about using poetry to understand and process complex emotions like grief. As the year comes to an end, we ...