T.S. Eliot famously observed in his great poem, “The Four Quartets,” that April is the cruelest month. Economists quote this line every year during the first two weeks of that month when referencing ...

Many AI guardrails rely on classifiers that scan for keywords and patterns. According to the researchers, poetic language can ...

And let them drop down on my knee to-night. This said, . . . he wished to have me in his sight Once, as a friend: this fixed a day in spring To come and touch my hand . . . a simple thing, Yet I wept ...

AMERICAN POETRY now belongs to a subculture. No longer part of the mainstream of artistic and intellectual life, it has become the specialized occupation of a relatively small and isolated group.

“Poetry leaves something out,” our columnist Elisa Gabbert says. But that’s hardly the extent of it. By Elisa Gabbert I once heard a student say poetry is language that’s “coherent enough.” I love a ...

My guest this week on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Lesléa Newman, who lives in Massachusetts. Lesléa began writing 60 years ago. When asked about her favorite subject/theme/target audience, she replied ...

A paper on arXiv by researchers at the Icaro Lab in Italy has set off a firestorm of headlines. It begins with a reference to a founding text of Western philoso ...

Clark State College’s Creative Writer’s Club recently hosted and announced the winners of its regional poetry and essay contests. Students in the Voices of the Valley Poetry Contest and third annual ...