It’s incapable of producing anything creative that isn’t dreck. If Anthropic had offered me $15,000 to use five pieces of my published work to train its large language models, I would have said no way ...

The Wood County Committee on Aging would like to announce the winners for the 20th annual poetry contest. Submissions were ...

WBUR's Andrea Shea has more on the National Baseball Poetry Festival and its origins. ANDREA SHEA, BYLINE: Baseball bards from across the country descended on Polar Park, Worcester's Minor League ...

After that ritual nitrate-laden animal sacrifice, complete with smoke ascending, the poet’s father — to whose memory ...

I’ve had a complicated relationship with onomatopoeia since the sixth grade. That year, after winning at my school, I competed in my county’s elementary spelling bee championship. As the rounds ...

Judges praised the ‘emotional stakes’ of Partridge Boswell’s poem The Gathering, which took the £5,000 top prize A poem about language, love, and processing distressing world events has won this ...

Onomatopoeia refers to words that imitate the sound they are describing. Onomatopoeia is a device that appeals to our sense of sound. It can help build a sense of immediacy, movement, atmosphere or ...

From Seamus Heaney’s collected poems and Simon Armitage’s animal spirits, to prizewinners Karen Solie and Vidyan Ravinthiran Many of 2025’s most notable collections have been powered by a spirit of ...

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It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Poetry is used all around the world as an important way to express how people are feeling and it is a great way of storytelling. National Poetry Day 2024 is celebrated on Thursday 3 October and is a ...

Hanif Abduraqqib. Sarah Kay. Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry ...