These poems span over 200 years and a range of emotions, from sorrow, to fear and hope.
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Here are five short game poems, all playable in a web browser, that explore themes of love, intimacy, longing and separation.
The project has highlighted a new generation of African poets and created a visually beautiful archive in the process.
The poem reveals the mind-numbing conditions and physically exhausting jobs that were relentlessly inflicted on prisoners in Wilde’s day.
These poems express the wonder and complexities of romantic love.
AI models can produce poems that rate well on certain ‘metrics’. But the event of reading poetry is not one in which we arrive at standardised outcomes.
Lacking formal training in medicine or nursing, Walt Whitman nonetheless realized ‘the simple matter of personal presence, and emanating ordinary cheer and magnetism’ could go a long way.
Writing about huge monsters is one way of confronting the things that make us feel small and vulnerable.
Shakespeare’s work has been adapted into video games many times, most notably in Elsinore (2019), and has also been the subject of multiple game-making contests.
Gradually, with more life experience, I have gained perspective and poetic nerve.
Thanks to a strong oral Urdu literary tradition in South Asia, poems from the past linger in the popular imagination.
A celebrated poet and Nobel laureate, Louise Glück wrote about mortality, broken families and human frailty with devastating wryness and quiet beauty.
Poetry and prose are prominent features in this course about how climate change is affecting the world.
Many established poets published lockdown poems offering their perspective on the power of poetry to make sense of the pandemic.
A poem about birds meeting in February to pick their mates is the first known example of Valentine’s day being connected with love.
Sylvia Plath left behind a complicated legacy. Contemporary writers influenced by her work must juggle inspiration with some problematic imagery – as a poetry expert explains.
‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ is now a treasured Christmas classic, but it didn’t start life that way – not in the UK, at least.
Ada Limón is the first woman of Mexican ancestry to be named U.S. poet laureate. Through her understanding of social media and the power of connection, she strives to make poetry accessible to everyone.
These books and poems give the women of the Odyssey a say and other new perspectives on the classic tale.
Can social media posts sustain Russia’s endangered dissident cultures?
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor in Creative Writing (Poetry), University of East Anglia
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