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 ...

Poet, novelist, and public intellectual, Professor Syl Cheney Coker, takes a veteran’s look at Woman of a Woman, a book of poems by Funke Awodiya.ONCE in a while, a new voice emerges in poetry. Its ...

Poetry, perhaps more than any other genre, shows us how important it is to connect with a real human presence.

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

This review of Musings of Yesteryears demonstrates that Udeme Nana is a gifted poet from birth, as can be seen in the ...

Marianne Boruch has received the Jackson Poetry Prize for “exceptional talent.” The $100,000 award recognizes her insights into the natural world and our inner lives.

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 ...

Personification is when you give human characteristics to inanimate objects (e.g. a spoon or a shoe), abstract concepts (e.g. time or happiness) or natural phenomena (e.g. the weather or a tree). It ...

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 ...

Sorting Through is a poignant poem in which the speaker reflects on the memory and loss of their mother whilst clearing out her belongings after her death. This generational rite of passage prompts ...

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 ...

The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa Claus. But the classic poem also sparked a centuries-long controversy. Now, ...