Will Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album “The Tortured Poets Department” usher in a new era of poetry appreciation? Delaney Atkins, a part-time instructor at Austin Peay State University who teaches a ...
Maggie Smith’s poem “Good Bones” became a viral sensation when it was published in 2016 the same week as the Pulse Nightclub mass shooting in Orlando. The exposure — rare for a living poet, let alone ...
Source: The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum / Public Domain Let’s start with an image. You are in a restaurant, at a bar, or driving to a beach with some friends. Someone says something funny, and everyone ...
While ‘touch grass’ has become a popular prescription for a less digital life, choosing social friction over efficiency can also feel curative ...
Before reading her poem “Der Garten” (The Garden), German author Safiye Can holds up the page from her book of poetry for her audience to see. In the poem’s title, the letters G and A dip lower than ...