Close reading is more than just reading carefully—it’s a deliberate, methodical way to uncover a poem’s layers of meaning. By focusing on details like diction, imagery, and structure, you can build a ...

Poetry is boring. At least, that is how it may look at first glance. I definitely understand why that could be someone’s ...

Culturally, poetry is used in varied ways. Haikus, for example, juxtapose images of the everyday, while lyric poetry expresses the personal and emotional. Similarly, poets themselves come in a range ...

To put that theory into practice, I teamed up with my friend Jared Bauman, built an AI-powered poem generator, and released ...