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 ...
A Note Of Love Amidst The Beats of Hatred
Rajasthan Kabir Yatra is dedicated to reviving the traditional all-night singing congregation Bhakti-Sufi poetry in Rajasthan ...
Inside Maureen Lipman's epic plans for 'big and unexpected wedding' after finding love at 78
The Coronation Street star tells how she met her fiancé David decades earlier - but he never asked her for a second dance ...
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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 ...
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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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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All We Imagine As Light
We care about what happens to them. We care about the people they care about, Dr. Manoj, Shiaz. Cinematographer Ranabir Das (who also shot "A Night of Knowing Nothing") shows great sensitivity to the ...
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3 Bob Dylan Songs About Young Love and the Pain of Distance
Bob Dylan's earliest work was teeming with heart-breaking romance ballads, and these three songs are just a few of the best.
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The art of losing
In Jan Donley’s class at Berklee, her students study literature that centers on loss. Loss can make us sad, but it can also help us heal, Donley writes. In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, ...
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Joan of England in Bordeaux, 1348
Paisley Rekdal is the author of six volumes of poetry, most recently Nightingale (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). An inaugural Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, Rekdal is the Guest Editor for ...
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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An interview with the poet Wendy Cope on her TikTok fame
Readings on social media have created a new generation of audience for the poet Wendy Cope, Martin Wroe learns ...