“I never got poetry,” someone says to me again. And I sigh. Because I never got it either — at least, not until I learned to stop worrying about “getting it.” In fact, “get” — with its connotation of ...

A former editor introduced me to the Poetry Foundation‘s Poem of the Day. His parents were poets—not amateurs who scribbled doggerel on birthday cards, but professionals who published books and taught ...

This is the third in a monthly series by Dave Lucas, the Poet Laureate of the State of Ohio. You can read the September Installment, (No. 1), here; and the October ...

This year’s National Poetry Day has the theme of Freedom. Among the events inspired by it is a reading - at Glasgow’s flourishing poetry club, St Mungo’s Mirrorball - devoted to modern Russian poets ...

At first, Walter Grigo was stumped. His class assignment was to prepare a 10-minute presentation on a poem by colonial author Phillis Wheatley. Grigo, who at the time was taking graduate courses at ...

Hackers and evildoers are using adversarial poetry to jailbreak AI. The trick involves writing poems as prompts. AI safeguards can be averted. An AI Insider scoop.

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...