During a dry period of writing, Creative Writing Associate Professor Maggie Dietz felt the stirrings of a new poem. Lines from “If You Would Let Me” came to her in waking dreams, she says. Several ...

Prose poetry had a slow start in Australia. Long after 19th-century French poets, such as Aloysius Bertrand, Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud, wrote groundbreaking works of prose poetry, ...

An early ninth-century manuscript containing a text of the first known poem in the English language has been discovered in Rome by researchers from Trinity College Dublin. The newly-discovered ...

At his Austin concert on Saturday, Bruce Springsteen kicked off his set with a remark about the reported assassination attempt at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, offering a “prayer of thanks ...

April is National Poetry Month and a good time to consider beginning a poetry writing practice for yourself and/or your clients. Poetry is a powerful creative endeavor that keeps us in the moment and ...

This forms carbon-14 compounds that circulate globally through the atmosphere and are incorporated into organic materials. By measuring the carbon-14 content in preserved organic material, such as ...

Announcing the Ninth Annual Fighting Words Poetry Contest! How can poetry be an effective response to current events and the issues impacting our communities? How can creative expression help us ...

When Sam Beam made the last Iron & Wine album, 2024’s Light Verse, he chose to name it after a form of poetry centered on levity, amusement, and joy. But that title is a misnomer, a bait-and-switch; ...

25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models yielded high attack success rates when prompted in verse, indicating a deeper, underlying problems in their ability to process ambiguity veiled in poetry ...

Japanese researchers have described a new species of sea anemone that appears to share a mutually beneficial relationship with hermit crabs. The pale pink sea anemones, now named Paracalliactis ...

The White House has issued a cutting response to Joan Baez’s new poem speculating that a “little green worm” may have eaten its way through President Donald Trump’s brain. The singer-songwriter and ...

I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...