Read the poem ‘Rainy Morning in the Horse Barn’ by Lucia Owen

This week’s poem, Lucia Owen’s “Rainy Morning in the Horse Barn,” offers a tender, quiet interlude of communion among beings.
Scientific American

Poetry was humanity’s first language technology. AI is the next

Sasha Stiles turned GPT-2 experiments into a self-writing poem at a Museum of Modern Art installation—and a new way to think about text-generating AI optimization ...
The New York Times

In a Poem, Just Who Is ‘the Speaker,’ Anyway?

Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That’s what makes it so fun to try. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most ...

Poetry comes alive for Black History Month at Valparaiso University

Lily Velazquez, a freshman from the Crown Point/St. John area, recites a poem to attendees at Valparaiso University’s Poetry Slam on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2025, in the Harre Union. The event was one of ...
NPR

Poetry Moment

Presented by Spokane Public Radio, Poetry Moment is a program that showcases myriad poems as read by poets and poetry lovers from across the Inland Northwest — and occasionally beyond.Poetry Moment ...

‘Poetry is about truth, difference, and breaking form’: Debut poet Adil Parashar aka Aranya

I know Adil Parashar, who uses the pen name Aranya for their writing, in many capacities: poet, friend, curator, editor. One thing that’s common across all these personas is the innately polyphonic ...
NPR

As National Poetry Month comes to a close, 2 new retrospectives to savor

With National Poetry Month comes spring flowers and some of the year's biggest poetry publications. And as April wraps up, we wanted to bring you two of our favorites — retrospective collections from ...
The Paris Review

Making of a Poem: Monzer Masri and Robyn Creswell on “A Palestinian, a Sudanese, and the third was a Moroccan”

What I know is that I don’t want it to be poetic. The time has passed when my poetry was poetic—if in fact my poetry was ever poetic. My fate has always been to do something different.” ...
UVA Today

Do You Prefer AI Poems or Poets?

A study in the journal Scientific Reports suggests readers like AI-generated poems more than those written by poets like Sylvia Plath and T.S. Eliot. Nonexpert readers of poems from William ...
snhu

Why is Poetry Important? Celebrating National Poetry Month

If you think poetry isn't for you, this might be the right time to give it a second chance. Every April in the United States, National Poetry Month invites you to experience and celebrate an art form ...
The New York Times

Find Poetry in the Pages of a Newspaper

The hardest part about writing poetry is choosing the right words. Use a paper or magazine as raw material to get over the first hurdle. By Leah Umansky These days, people are turning to art or poetry ...