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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 week ago

Spoken-word poetry, immigration fears, friendship, and 'Brown Face' onstage * Oregon ArtsWatch

The play at Milagro Theatre explores friendship, identity, culture, and immigration through a poetry-slam format with audience engagement.
Writing
fromThe Marginalian
1 day ago

Walt Whitman's Field Guide to Being Yourself: The Trial and Triumph of Leaves of Grass

A teenage boy in 1833 finds inspiration in theater, literature, and poetry, shaping his future contributions to social justice and cultural awakening.
OMG science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 week ago

Medieval poets wrote about auroras. Their work is providing clues to the solar cycle

Three consecutive nights of auroras in 1204 over Kyoto were linked to solar events traced through tree rings and historical literature.
#nature
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago
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The best recent poetry review roundup

The collection features unrhymed sonnets exploring the relationship between landscape, language, and human experience amidst themes of illness and trauma.
fromiRunFar
2 months ago
Writing

Returning: A Poem by Angie Funtanilla

Returning to the trail restores embodied joy, reconnecting breath, heart, muscles, and memory through movement, nature's touch, and deep, requited love.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The best recent poetry review roundup

The collection features unrhymed sonnets exploring the relationship between landscape, language, and human experience amidst themes of illness and trauma.
#mental-health
Mental health
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The manosphere is dead and no one cares about Andrew Tate any more': the poet taking on toxic masculinity

Sam Browne uses performance poetry to address mental health and masculinity, aiming to change perceptions and support men in their struggles.
Cancer
fromNature
2 weeks ago

Engaging the head and the heart: why scientists turn to poetry

Poetry and medicine intertwine, enhancing the healing process and providing emotional support in palliative care.
fromwww.nytimes.com
2 days ago

Classic and Contemporary Literature From France, Japan, India, the U.K. and Brazil

Classic France is a country of nuance with a love of conversation and freedom and an aversion to fanaticism. Contemporary Houellebecq describes France as a museum, where landscape turns into decor and where rural areas are emptying out.
Writing
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Daunting, inspiring, comforting, terrifying: the writers who can make silence as eloquent as words

A vision lay before him: Fleet Street blanketed with snow, silent, empty, pure white, and, at the end of it, the huge and majestic form of Saint Paul's Cathedral. It was a spellbinding moment: the great thoroughfare temporarily devoid of carts and carriages, the cathedral looming blurrily out of the still-falling snowflakes a real-life snow globe.
London
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

African people are surreal': songwriter and blues poet Aja Monet on Black resistance and love as spiritual warfare

Aja Monet blends surrealism and blues in her art, addressing themes of love, resistance, and societal absurdities influenced by historical fascism.
Digital life
fromFast Company
4 weeks ago

Is AI killing the human voice in writing?

Predictive language technologies challenge individual expression by influencing how writers generate and complete their thoughts.
Writing
fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

The Feeling of Becoming Less and Less of a Person

The advent of the smartphone marked a significant shift in human perception and relationships, altering the human sensorium since June 2007.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

Maya C. Popa Reads Brenda Shaughnessy

Maya C. Popa reads poems and discusses her work, including upcoming publications and her role as a poetry editor.
fromwww.amny.com
1 month ago

Here are 10 great ways to celebrate poetry in NYC for World Poetry Day | amNewYork

Sadly, on Nov. 1, 2023, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe closed its location at 236 E 3rd St. to undergo a three-year Nuyoricanstruction project aimed at renovating its 100-year-old building, with plans to reopen in 2026. During that time, the cafe has partnered with the Bowery Poetry Club to host a Nuyorican Poets Cafe Slam every Monday night beginning at 7 p.m.
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#ben-lerner
fromArtforum
1 week ago
Writing

Ben Lerner's Transcription and the Fictional Readymade

Ben Lerner's new novel, Transcription, showcases his restless creativity and innovative formal experimentation in fiction.
fromVulture
2 weeks ago
Writing

Ben Lerner's Big Feelings

Ben Lerner's new book, Transcription, explores the complexities of authorial voice and the nature of interviews through a unique narrative structure.
Writing
fromArtforum
1 week ago

Ben Lerner's Transcription and the Fictional Readymade

Ben Lerner's new novel, Transcription, showcases his restless creativity and innovative formal experimentation in fiction.
Writing
fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Ben Lerner's Big Feelings

Ben Lerner's new book, Transcription, explores the complexities of authorial voice and the nature of interviews through a unique narrative structure.
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago

Poetry Anthology of Light / P.M.A.Studio

This project involved the reconstruction of a dilapidated building located in Guangzhou's old town along Tongfu Xi Road, a historic street established in 1926. Once vibrant, this area has suffered from significant neglect over the years, with many buildings falling into disrepair, creating safety hazards that forced both residents and businesses to leave.
Renovation
Books
fromTasting Table
3 weeks ago

Bob Dylan Slipped An Unexpected Dunkin' Shoutout Into One Of His Books - Tasting Table

Bob Dylan expresses gratitude to Dunkin' Donuts in his book, highlighting his appreciation for the brand.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

A View From the Easel

An MFA student adjusts studio practice to smaller school workspace while maintaining multitasking creative habits and intentionally resisting constraints on artistic vision.
Miscellaneous
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago

The Black lesbian poet & activist who preached intersectionality before the word even existed - LGBTQ Nation

Pat Parker's poetry insisted that race, gender, sexuality, and class were inseparable forces shaping Black lesbian experience and American political life.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Wherefore Art Thou Romeo? How Reciting Verse Reduces Stress

Reading rhythmic poetry aloud synchronizes heart rate and respiration, reducing mental stress more effectively than deliberate slow breathing.
Writing
fromwww.nytimes.com
3 weeks ago

What Happens When We Die? This Wallace Stevens Poem Has Thoughts.

The poem explores the concept of a bird as a symbol of thought and perception beyond human understanding.
Writing
fromwww.amny.com
1 month ago

At Zoe Branch's table, poetry is alive and well in New York City | amNewYork

Zoe Branch's typewriter poetry in Central Park has made her a notable figure, offering personalized poems that connect deeply with individuals.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The best recent poetry review roundup

Andrew Motion's latest collection explores mortality and loss through elegies, showing a shift toward rootedness and acceptance of death as a universal human experience rather than personal bewilderment.
Music
fromVulture
1 month ago

Emily Dickinson, Set to New Music, Kills at Carnegie Hall

Kevin Puts's Emily - No Prisoner Be blends intimate chamber writing and symphonic scope, showcased by Joyce DiDonato and Time for Three in Carnegie Hall.
Writing
fromHarvard Gazette
1 month ago

The art of College poetry - Harvard Gazette

Harvard College hosts three National Youth Poet Laureates who emphasize performance techniques, personal storytelling, and the transformative power of poetry in their academic and artistic pursuits.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

How a poet uses AI to write and why her work is now at MoMA

Poetry and artificial intelligence can appear as oppositesone deeply human; the other cold and mechanical. Sasha Stiles sees them as expressions of the same impulse. Poetry, the Kalmyk- American poet argues, is one of our most ancient and enduring technologies, a system of meter and rhyme invented to store vital information. She views AI as its natural heir. Stiles's path to AI began with literature, not code.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

One of Our Own

For Lowell There are things which, said and true, are of this generation's past; of fighting freedom's battles and of taking off the mask- stories of the actions taken, to blot out the blights of sin, how heroes and the valorous fought their enemies within, Would we be traitors to our bugle, which beckons with its call? - They won freedom for their people but in fine print said: be damned.
US politics
Europe politics
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

The Country That Made Its Own Canon

Sweden released a national culture canon, sparking controversy over national identity as immigration rises and the nationalist Sweden Democrats gain political influence.
LGBT
fromQueerty
4 months ago

Turns out the raunchiest thing Emily Dickinson ever wrote wasn't about death... it was her sapphic love letters - Queerty

Emily Dickinson maintained a lifelong, passionate romantic relationship with Susan Gilbert, living side-by-side in a committed lesbian Boston marriage.
#artistic-pride
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Readers replies: how can we learn from unrequited love?

True love is not transactional. If we only love on the expectation of being loved back, then it is not love, it is bartering. Love is unconditional. I love you, and that is all and everything. You do not need to do anything. You do not need to reciprocate. You do not even need to know.
Relationships
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

Poet Q&A: Brittney Corrigan talks eco-anxiety, daughterhood, and finding importance in art * Oregon ArtsWatch

I've been writing both poetry and short stories since I was a child, but I first began to think of myself as a writer when my 11th-grade English teacher encouraged me to lean in. I started to take my craft seriously in college, majoring in English with a focus on creative writing. By the time I graduated in the mid-1990s, I considered myself a poet.
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Music
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

From Bronte to Ballard, Orwell to Okri: the best songs inspired by literature ranked!

Numerous popular songs draw direct inspiration from literature, with artists adapting novels, authors, and literary imagery into lyrics, themes, and song concepts.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

AI researcher says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry

An AI safety researcher resigned from Anthropic, warning of global peril from AI, bioweapons, and interconnected crises, and plans to study poetry in the UK.
US politics
fromSnopes
1 month ago

Did poet Amanda Gorman 'confront' Trump in TV debate?

A viral claim about Amanda Gorman confronting President Trump during a TV debate was fabricated and spread by AI-generated content pages profiting from advertising revenue.
Music
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Why music has become such a big part of the romance novel reading experience

Romance novel readers increasingly use pop music playlists to enhance their reading experiences, creating a community that bridges book fandom and music fandom, exemplified by Charli XCX's Wuthering Heights album.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The best recent poetry review roundup

Best known as a memoirist, Morrison returns to poetry after 11 years with a masterclass of lyric distillation and charged observation, demonstrating that nothing is beneath poetic deliberation. His subjects range from social and political justice to meditations on poetic heroes such as Elizabeth Bishop and sonnet sequences elegising the writer's sister. The interwoven specificity and occasional nature of the poems is captivating:
Books
fromsfist.com
1 month ago

Field Notes: BART Poetry, Revolutionary Black Panther Art, and from Rural Alaska to the Super Bowl

On a daily ride between San Leandro and the Mission, a young poet found her page in motion. Sehinne's poem earned a rare sweep of nine-or-higher scores at the 2025 Brave New Voices festival, helping Team Youth Speaks Bay Area take first place. In the piece, the train becomes a steady, slightly offbeat presence part family member, part witness a place where writing happens in stolen minutes between stations.
Arts
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

What Do We Want from a Protest Song?

He sings the names of the dead haltingly, as though he is reading them off a screen-which, judging from the recording-studio footage in the song's lyric video, he probably is. The song is about the news, but it is also, perhaps unintentionally, about the moment of lag when we absorb the names and images, when we try to assimilate atrocity into narrative.
Music
Books
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Rimbaud and Verlaine in Washington Square Park

Richard Hell's novel 'Godlike' transposes a nineteenth-century French poets' affair to 1970s New York, exploring themes of sex, violence, and self-determination through punk culture.
Arts
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

8 signs you appreciate art, music, and culture on a deeper level than most people - Silicon Canals

Some people experience art deeply, reacting emotionally and perceiving subtle artistic cues that reveal heightened sensitivity and meaningful connections to creative expression.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Poem of the week: To Wordsworth by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley accuses Wordsworth of abandoning radical political commitment, mourning lost intensity and accusing him of an easier resignation of moral and poetic power.
Books
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Why Tennyson Feels So Modern

Young Alfred, Lord Tennyson absorbed unsettling scientific ideas, shaping his melancholic temperament and the themes of belief crisis in his poetry.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Underground wit and poor attention spans | Letters

Poems on the Underground seldom capture the London Underground experience, inspiring satirical commuter poems and comparisons between oral epic attention strategies and modern cinema.
Writing
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Literary Theory

Words carry multiple meanings; 'swallow' embodies both bird and ingestion, showing language's power to alter perception and emotional states.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

How Do You Write About the Inexplicable?

Rational skepticism coexists with a persistent tendency to personify evil and read coincidences as omens.
Books
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

Poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths says she won't let pain be 'the engine that drives the ship'

Rachel Eliza Griffiths experienced dissociative episodes and memory blackouts after her best friend's death and during subsequent trauma, and she chronicled these experiences in a memoir.
Books
fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

Gathering medieval French prayerbook, Kabuki in America, Sylvia Plath's thoughts - Harvard Gazette

Houghton Library's new acquisitions display showcases diverse rare materials—from an 18th–19th-century Georgian Bible to Sylvia Plath's books and internment camp letters.
Writing
fromThe Walrus
2 months ago

Two Poems | The Walrus

A widow keeps her late husband's underpants as haunting, domestic relics while a ghostly presence from him recedes as she starts intimacy with someone new.
fromFrenchly
2 months ago

7 Famous French Love Poems (with English Translations) - Frenchly

Need a French poem to impress your date or S.O.? Love is in the air and here at Frenchly, we've got you covered. The French language has long been considered the language of romance, and French poetry is a beautiful way to say "je t'aime" to your love. Here are seven French love poems that will sweep anyone off their feet. We've included the original French version of each poem, along with their English translation.
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Writing
fromOpen Culture
2 months ago

Jack Kerouac Lists 9 Essentials for Writing Spontaneous Prose

Writing should be a rapid, breath-driven, associative outpouring that privileges rhythm, immediacy, and improvisation over revision and strict grammatical correctness.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Poem of the week: Now, Mother, What's the Matter? by Richard W Halperin

Life and art belong to troubled hearts; Hamlet embodies human trouble, and poetry bridges earthly distress with spiritual and artistic uncertainty.
#langston-hughes
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Forbearance

A little rice? A little soup? I'd rather die reading the early texts you sent about my breasts. I wouldn't take a picture- infidelity!- and so instead had conjured them with words, for which, with words, you gave me back a tongue we dragged across the skin of common thought. Such is our lot, our shared disease or gift. Like Bernini's angels propped somewhere in Rome
fromAnOther
2 months ago

A Reading List by Ocean Vuong: Part One

Because, let's face it, creative work does require some form of faith. It is a tumultuous thing to launch an idea into a vast nothingness and hope that it makes a light bright enough to be found by others. Luckily, these luminaries were my light, and I hope they may become yours as well, and - more so - that these snippets lead you to more of their work.
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Writing
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Writer's Secret Weapon

Swimming and physical exertion enhance creative thinking by muffling sensory input, boosting neurotransmitters, and enabling deeper, more original idea generation.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Writer's Magic Trick

A writer is a kind of magician. Their job is to create living, three-dimensional people out of the ordinary stuff of ink and paper. This is no easy task, because readers can't literally hear, touch, or observe a character. Everything that defines a human being in real life-the physical space they occupy, or how they smell, feel, and sound-is stripped away, replaced by description. But authors have one major, mystical advantage: They can show you what's happening inside of someone's brain.
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Writing
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Two Portraits of My Father in a Tree

On a Christmas climb, companions tie coats to trees, relieve heat, then face darkness and cold as one climbs a pine seeking home.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Poem of the week from plastic: A Poem by Matthew Rice

Night-shift factory work constrains workers' imagination and individual potential, reducing moments of perception to fragments within enforced time-stamped routine.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Adrian Matejka Reads C. D. Wright

Adrian Matejka reads poetry selections including C. D. Wright's 'Against the Encroaching Grays' and his own poem 'Almost Home' in conversation with Kevin Young.
Books
fromMedium
2 months ago

How to start writing (like it's easy)

A profoundly immersive book can deeply alter readers and provoke self-doubt about one's own creative abilities.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Daffodil Days by Helen Bain review virtuoso portrait of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath's final year

The Daffodil Days reconstructs Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes's 1961-1962 Devon period through multiple perspectives of those around them, revealing intimate details of their deteriorating marriage and creative output.
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fromwww.newyorker.com
2 months ago

April Bernard Reads John Ashbery

April Bernard reads John Ashbery's A Worldly Country and her poem Beagle or Something; she has published novels and poetry and teaches at Skidmore College.
Books
fromSlate Magazine
2 months ago

Our Greatest Living Biographer Is Back With His First Single-Subject Book in Decades. It's Enthralling.

Young Alfred Tennyson's early life intertwined poetic sensibility with scientific curiosity amid a Victorian crisis of belief.
fromFuncheap
2 months ago

Performance: Kim Shuck's Poem Jam Celebrates Women in a Golden State

San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita invites writers featured in Women in a Golden State to present at SFPL's Monthly poetry reading. was San Francisco's seventh Poet Laureate. Her poetry draws on her multiethnic background which includes Polish and Cherokee heritage, and her experiences as a lifelong resident of San Francisco. Her most recent book of poetry, Pick a Garnet to Sleep In, was published in 2024, and her book of essays, Noodle, Rant, Tangent, was published in 2022.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Poem of the week: The Secret Day by Stella Benson

The Secret Day My yesterday has gone, has gone and left me tired, And now tomorrow comes and beats upon the door; So I have built To-day, the day that I desired, Lest joy come not again, lest peace return no more, Lest comfort come no more. So I have built To-day, a proud and perfect day, And I have built the towers of cliffs upon the sands; The foxgloves and the gorse I planted on my way;
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