Poetry, perhaps more than any other genre, shows us how important it is to connect with a real human presence.

Henri Cole's Touch is a book of reckonings. Separated into three different sections, the poems are arranged around a mother's death, a confrontation with mortality and, finally, a turbulent ...

Poetry addresses many of our most commonly experienced human challenges and has the power to foster resilience, hope, and ...

In Dr. Fady Joudah’s poem “House of Mercury,” a severe summer storm has blown over Houston. The storm’s destructive winds woke up the narrator’s father, who hears the “snaps and creaks” of the two ...

Teaching for connection: A professor refocused her lyric poetry class on the enduring human presence in verse as AI-produced text becomes more prevalent. Timeless works inspire: Students engaged with ...

The world is always talking to us, but all too often we are just not listening. One of the things that one can do as a poet is to enter into conversation with the more than human existence which is ...

At the beginning of this semester, all of my English professors brought up a new technology when they were going over the syllabus: ChatGPT. After they warned against using it to complete our essays, ...

Last fall I visited Ann Lauterbach, a poet of verity and the splendid particular, at her renovated schoolhouse in upstate New York, where every corner reveals lovely and curious objects—exquisite and ...

Artificial intelligence has a pretty poor track record of trying to fool humans. From attempting to write Game of Thrones books to creating Dungeons and Dragons monsters, it just doesn’t quite have ...

This poem by Lyudmyla Khersonsky begins in medias res with a dead body rather than the death itself, followed by a pile of urgent questions. We find ourselves suspended in a state of unknowing. The ...