Back in the days of Surrealism, Revardy and Breton delighted in new images cast from the most disparate material. I understand that thrill. It’s what makes poetry worth reading. Art and poetry are ...
What: Claudia Rankine, poet, playwright and author of “Citizen: An American Lyric,” a poetic meditation on race, and the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University, will discuss mounting ...
Have you ever stood in front of a redwood and wondered, “Wouldn’t it be great if this was poetry instead of a tree?” Neither did Joyce Kilmer. Kelin Carolyn Zhang and Ryan Mather, however, have set ...
The poet Mark McWatt explains: “The photograph was taken in September, 2009, a few weeks after the new school year began. I immediately understood that the attitude of the paddlers and their ...
Tom Payne and Alan Marshall review The Colour of Black and White: Poems 1984 -2003 by Liz Lockhead and The Lammas Hireling by Ian Duhig By Tom Payne and Alan Marshall 23 June 2003 • 12:01am In 1981, ...
Microsoft recently taught its XiaoIce chatbot, a Chinese language conversational AI, how to interpret pictures as poems. We’re not sure if that counts as inspired writing, but it’s an interesting step ...