Metaphor is the root and branch of poetry, of thought itself, the first human tool that permitted us to imagine the potential state of tools and ornaments from raw materials. Its state of potential is ...

Today’s post is by poetry facilitator and hypnotherapist Terhi K. Cherry. Terhi explained: As a poetry facilitator and a hypnotherapist, I support creativity tapping into the subconscious mind. We are ...

New collections harness visual media to examine the past for clues as to what’s most urgent in the present. After Rader’s father died in 2018, the poet visited the Gagosian Gallery in New York City to ...

Terrance Hayes’s most recent poetry collection “How to be Drawn” builds upon the idea of the word “drawn” in a broad sense. In addition to being a poet, Hayes is a visual artist, his work pondering ...

Microsoft recently taught its XiaoIce chatbot, a Chinese language conversational AI, how to interpret pictures as poems. We’re not sure if that counts as inspired writing, but it’s an interesting step ...

Have you ever stood in front of a redwood and wondered, “Wouldn’t it be great if this was poetry instead of a tree?” Neither did Joyce Kilmer. Kelin Carolyn Zhang and Ryan Mather, however, have set ...

Ever since Plato banished poets and painters from his ideal republic, artists, poets, philosophers, and critics have struggled to sort out the relationship between word (poetry) and image (painting).

Close reading is more than just reading carefully—it’s a deliberate, methodical way to uncover a poem’s layers of meaning. By focusing on details like diction, imagery, and structure, you can build a ...