FSU poetry professor James Kimbrell headlined The Jerome Stern Reading Series at The Bark, sharing work from his latest collection of poems.
One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...
Then I turn to the poem on the next page and the story disappears. So, as we write poems, it’s important to remember that we’re really telling these stories of a moment. The question we should ...
Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...
By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...
Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...
Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a friend poem.
I winned! Historically, there are only a few poets in Japan who, over the centuries, have become respected for their haiku poetry. Due to the richest cultural history, it hit me to compete and I did ...
Children's poet Constance Levy, a former educator who lives in St. Louis, encourages readers of all ages to tell their own ...
Lyrics are often compared to poetry. Are they a form of "the poetic art?" Are they less "artistic?" Poetry has a romantic aura to it, whereas lyric writing seems rather plebeian (to borrow a word from ...