Poetry

Poetry Doesn't Need a PhD: Beyond the Classroom: Hollay Ghadery and Rob Winger on making poetry accessible to all and why school can spoil poetry. Rob and Hollay's conversation is like a call to reclaim poetry and make poetry for everyone.

New collections from Canadian poets explore identity, trauma, resilience. Unravel by Tolu Oloruntoba; Forecast: Pretty Bleak by Chris Bailey

In her debut collection titled Elergy for Opportunity, Natalie Lim asks: How do we go on living and loving in a time of overlapping crises? Anchored by elegies for NASA’s Opportunity rover and a series of love poems, this collection explores the tension and beauty of a world marked by grief through meditations on Dungeons & Dragons, Taylor Swift’s cultural impact, the all-engulfing anxiety of the climate crisis and more.

An October 2024 University of Pittsburgh report erroneously reports that AI can generate better poetry than poems by humans.

Good copywriters always want to refine their skills, especially in the age of generative AI. Reading poetry is one way of doing just that.