Life Isn’t Perfect. But This Poem Might Be.
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...
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Life, like a poem, is a series of choices
It’s impossible for me to talk about writing without talking about living, writes Maggie Smith, author of the new book, "Dear ...
30 Poems About Life That Will Change How You See the World
Moral of the story: Poetry sheds light on our lives ... Langston Hughes wrote about Black life and culture, revealing through ...
World Poetry Day: On Instagram and TikTok, poetry finds a new lease of life
From social media to AI, new technologies have changed the way that we produce and consume poetry. For World Poetry Day, we take a deep dive into the trends that brought a renewed popularity to this ...
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where poetry lives
Master of Fine Arts students at Antioch University in Los Angeles are required to do community service to enhance the “writing life” of others. As part of our series Where Poetry Lives ...
I researched poetry written during COVID – five years on, here’s how people say it helped them
The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats (1919) and The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot (1922) can be read ...