Nilo Cruz is, first and foremost, a poet.

It’s been described as embarrassing, clichéd or “unhelpful singsong.” Many poets dislike it too, but it’s a style they’ve learned from each other.

Spurning the free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited poems for ...

PJ Harvey's new album, I Inside The Old Year Dying, builds off of a narrative poem she wrote about a year in the life of a 9-year-old girl in a... PJ Harvey's latest album unfolds out of an epic ...

Shen Tao sat down and wrote the opening chapters of her debut novel, “The Poet Empress” (out Jan. 20 from Bramble), in a flow state. “I wrote the first four chapters of the story almost in one day,” ...

The poetry collection “Nobidena Histhena” authored by Mrs. Rajika Agampodi was recently launched in Melbourne, Australia. The book is based on a study of ancient poetic traditions and draws ...

Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis poet, wife and mother, was shot and killed Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, setting off nationwide protests over the ...

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Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s most recent collection, “The New Economy,” was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry, and one of their poems was included in “A Century of Poetry in The New ...

After Rashan Brown finished his first major gig as a spoken-word poet — opening for bestselling author and poet Rupi Kaur at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, New York, in December 2022 — he stepped ...

To honor Nebraska author Bess Streeter Aldrich and recognize outstanding writing, the Bess Streeter Aldrich Foundation announces the continuation of its poetry contest (third year) and short story ...

You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. The study, "Adversarial Poetry as a ...