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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Terrance Hayes’s most recent poetry collection “How to be Drawn” builds upon the idea of the word ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here is a book that offers up a pleasantly tricky problem of definition at the very outset: Meera Ganapathi, author of several children’s books and editor of the literary publication The Soup, has ...

Back in the days of Surrealism, Revardy and Breton delighted in new images cast from the most disparate material. I understand that thrill. It’s what makes poetry worth reading. Art and poetry are ...