What prompted the idea for the course? I’ve often found poetry to be a good way to teach law students about the power of particular details, as well as the efficient elegance of compact language. At ...

Public school teachers move at a ferocious pace, pushed along by the often conflicting demands of agencies charged with churning out pedagogical outcomes palatable to, well, the public. But how is ...

N: A Life." And Jay Parini joins us now from Middlebury, Vermont. Welcome. You actually divided the group who've opted for this sentence into, I gather, two different classes that you've taught ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt, who was the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024, started writing in high school and not long after ...

Why read and write poetry? It is a worthy and important art form for anyone. However, poetry has often been pushed to the back of the list when all other writing is completed. We often don’t perceive ...

Over at The Boston Review, Amy King defends contemporary poetry against critics who have decried its demise—and who are, she argues, calling for nothing short of poetry’s “depersonalization” so that ...

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A new study found that A.I.-generated poems are rated higher than human-written ones. Igor Omilaev for Unsplash+ Earlier this month, Ben Affleck made headlines while discussing why he believes A.I.

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 ...

Once upon a midnight dreary, an English professor at Princeton sat in her office, musing over many volumes of forgotten lore about the right way to read a poem. There were handbooks, essays, letters ...

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