20 Poems About Friendship to Share with Your BFF
Friendship poems to celebrate your bestie Birthdays are fantastic occasions, but who says you can’t celebrate friendship any ...
New research shows people can’t tell the difference between human and AI poetry – and even prefer the latter. What gives?
AI models can produce poems that rate well on certain ‘metrics’. But the event of reading poetry is not one in which we ...
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Review: Poetry of the seeking soul
A tourist who is out of time approaches the end of his or her trip and must return home soon. This is how the Rev. David May ...
Minneapolis’ Danez Smith looks to Langston Hughes and Andre 3000 in trying to write one great poem
You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls.
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The astonishing beauty of spoken poetry
As I weaved through the verses, I felt myself steadying on stage, anticipating the next line and delivering it with just the ...
Poetry from Daily Life: You can meet 100 people and only like a few. Poets are the same.
It's OK if you find some poetry boring or uninspiring, poet Laura Haskins writes, but keep looking for what you'll like.
Birmingham’s first youth poet fellow praises the arts, ‘Black women representation’
The State of Alabama and the City of Birmingham both have poet laureates in Ashley Jones and Salaam Green, respectively. Meet ...
Hear mother’s emotional poem read at the sentencing of her 17-year-old daughter’s killer (video)
The mother of 17-year-old Karlianne Short wrote a poem in memory of her daughter that was read Friday at the sentencing of ...
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Singing with poems of love
The title may sound a bit common but it fits into the types of poems she has written for the sake of humanity. Unify is a collection that has chosen love, compassion, equality, and such other ...
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PoetrySnaps! Tina Carlson: 'In the Palm of My Hand, Rivers'
New Mexico poet Tina Carlson's latest book, Obsidian, focuses on metamorphosis. She says poetry can take the otherworldly, ...
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Meet Gideon Young: The North Carolina Poetry Society’s Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet in the Eastern Region
Story via Arshia Simkin, The Underline, Gideon Young wears many hats: he’s a father, a writer, a poet, an educator (he’s an ...
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Why you should read Richard Wilbur’s ‘Love Calls Us to the Things of This World’
A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it ...