As you might know from my previous entries I have been a part of Poetry Parnassus - the biggest gathering of poets in modern history. Nearly 200 poets representing Olympic nations came to London, not ...

The award for poetry this year went to Mark Strand for his book "Blizzard of One." It's Strand's ninth book of poetry. He has also published several books of translations, edited poetry anthologies, ...

Poetry is the art of making every word, every space, every line count: It requires its practitioners to be sure that every word is exactly the correct word and that it's in precisely the right place.

“All poetry is experimental poetry,” Wallace Stevens once said. And the world of contemporary poetry is much like the world of fantastical and science fictional prose narratives. And if you value ...

The Unbound Book Festival is happening in Columbia this weekend and KBIA has been speaking with some of this year’s featured authors. Brian Turner is a poet, essayist and musician. Last year, he ...

NPR wants to read how sports has touched your life — in poetry form. Maybe a home run is like getting your dream job – or asking your sweetheart for a first date felt like a Hail Mary pass. Maybe you ...

Once, when Ben Bernthal was selling street poetry — he takes three words from a stranger, and turns them into a poem on the spot — a man came up and told him to write a poem about “why it matters.” ...

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...

In the 1970s, science fiction writer JG Ballard was intrigued by the growing capabilities of computers – so used one to compose poems. They were a first step on the road to ChatGPT. The novelist and ...