26 stories tagged with #poetry, in publish-time order across the WeSearch catalog. Tag pages update as new stories ingest.
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Kevin Young wins the Griffin Poetry Prize for his ‘melancholic and haunting’ Night Watch
Young is a Harvard-educated Nebraskan who is poetry editor of The New Yorker magazine and a New York University professor…
Reflections on an Angelheaded Hipster: Celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s 100th Birthday
Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark a century ago today. He is totem as much as poet, arguably the most famous American writer of verse in the twentieth-century. There’s the Ginsberg…
Ukrainian haiku poet finds small miracles in war
Celebrated in Japan, Vladislava Simonova is almost unknown in her own country.…
Memories of Green
A poem…
When did poetry fall so behind prose in popularity?
Poetry for Engineers: Cyborg Laboratory
Read Paul Jones’s poem from our June 2026 issue…
Show HN: I wrote a program that hashes files into poems
Hash files into LLM-generated poems locally. Contribute to alebeck/rhymesum development by creating an account on GitHub.…
Bashir Badr: A poet of the masses
Badr used everyday language to great effect, ensuring that his verses spoke directly to the listener. | India News…
A Prescient Poem About AI
A post jocularly characterizing AIs as our children reminded me of this stanza from Philip Larkin: They fuck you up,… The post A Prescient Poem About AI appeared first on Reason.co…
Julia Alvarez Reads Judy Page Heitzman
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill,” by Judy Page Heitzman, and her own poem “Mami at Her Vanity.”…
“Your dangerous shoe.” A Poem by Lila Matsumoto
When I woke up I discovered that Dorothy’s flatmate had taped up my broken shoe so tightly with electrical tape that I couldn’t get my foot in it to go to work. The flatmate had be…
“Expatriate’s Pantoum.” A Poem by Maria Nazos
Today, we’ll wake again and drink pineapple juice spiked with Bacardi, then curl up in a hammock. We’ll do another line, then you’ll play me more Bruce, then we’ll cash another une…
Anthology by Chennai Poets’ Circle released; it features 60 poets
Non-profit and non-sectarian literary group Chennai Poets’ Circle (CPC) recently marked its 25th annual seminar at TAG Auditorium, Ramakrishna Mission Higher Secondary School in T.…
Building an AI Data Center in Pine Island, Minnesota
"I learned about the data center as soon as the scrappy sign was erected. I was thrilled to see something new; my drive hasn’t changed much in three years. I was less thrilled for …
The Burden They Carry
A poem…
'Live-streamed genocide': Palestinian poet writes from Gaza's frontline
The month he turned 30, Mosab Abu Toha was blindfolded, beaten and detained by the Israel Defense Forces. The essay he wrote about it won a Pulitzer Prize.…
‘Congo Boy’ Review: Congolese Filmmaker Rafiki Fariala Finds Poetry in the Chaos of War Displacement
A stirring musical drama, Congolese director Rafiki Fariala's Cannes Un Certain Regard entry 'Congo Boy' beats with the rhythms of resilience.…
Karnataka’s Education Dept. to conduct story, poetry, essay competitions to utilise school libraries better
Karnataka's Education Dept. launches competitions to enhance library usage and foster reading and writing skills among students.…
Patrick Stewart, AI and I encountered the Bard. Resistance was futile.
The “Star Trek” star and Claude school me on Shakespeare, poetry and the meaning of life.…
Colorado teacher refused to allow 7th grader to present pro-life poetry in class
‘A life is a life, no matter how small’ begins the poem that was banned from being presented in a Colorado middle school classroom.…
The Declaration Is America's Epic Poetry
Matthew Spalding joined the RCP Podcast on Friday to explain why the Declaration of Independence was not merely an Enlightenment document or Thomas Jefferson's personal philosophy,…
‘Write what you can’t bear to admit’ – plus two more rules Kae lives by to make art
British writer, performer and poet Kae Tempest on his sources of inspiration, plus: the power of being active through love, rather than inactive through fear.…
Sonnet for the Tendered Garden
A poem…
Researchers stunned by forgotten medieval book in Rome hiding the oldest English poem
Researchers in Dublin have uncovered the oldest surviving English poem in a Roman library…
Lost 1,200-year-old manuscript contains the first English poem
A long-lost manuscript discovered in Rome has revealed one of the oldest surviving versions of the very first known poem written in English. Hidden for decades and once believed lo…
Meet this Bengaluru-based physician-poet who loves haiku
Dr Vaishnavi Pusapati on her tryst with poetry, why haiku is her favourite form of expression and why Nature and grief are such pervasive themes in her work…