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 — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a "Just Like (blank)" poem.

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Write Action is sponsoring a special 2025 Poems Around Town event, and has issued a call for poetry submissions.

Anpotowin Jensen will launch "Hero Dreams Shine" this spring. The book is a collection of 45 poems focusing on themes of Indigneous rescilience and self-empowerment with science woven throughout.

Watch the celebrated actress recite Maria Woodford’s ‘elegy for a nissan micra’ which came out on top in this year’s time-themed contest ...

A Sahitya Akademi awardee and nominee for the T.S. Eliot Prize, Arundhathi is today one of India’s most prominent voices in ...

Lyrics are often compared to poetry. Are they a form of "the poetic art?" Are they less "artistic?" Poetry has a romantic aura to it, whereas lyric writing seems rather plebeian (to borrow a word from ...

Angela Bauer has been a copy editor and lifestyles editor for the Journal-Courier since July 2012. The Evansville, Indiana, ...

I don’t hate this one but I feel like he could do better still. I like the rhyme and it feels like he put a bit of effort into it, I just feel like it’s not very personalised to me. I’d probably give ...

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Poetry Workshop - The Thread by Don Paterson from the landmark series exploring the pleasures of writing and reading poems. Presented, ...

Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry.