One of my favorite poets is William Carlos Williams, the imagist poet who believed a poem could be like a painting — words that provoke a picture and initiate thought. Here’s his most famous poem: ...

Metaphor is the root and branch of poetry, of thought itself, the first human tool that permitted us to imagine the potential state of tools and ornaments from raw materials. Its state of potential is ...

Have you ever stood in front of a redwood and wondered, “Wouldn’t it be great if this was poetry instead of a tree?” Neither did Joyce Kilmer. Kelin Carolyn Zhang and Ryan Mather, however, have set ...

Terrance Hayes’s most recent poetry collection “How to be Drawn” builds upon the idea of the word “drawn” in a broad sense. In addition to being a poet, Hayes is a visual artist, his work pondering ...

New collections harness visual media to examine the past for clues as to what’s most urgent in the present. After Rader’s father died in 2018, the poet visited the Gagosian Gallery in New York City to ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. What are we to make of these lines where one thing bursts out of another? There are images here half inserted ...

Microsoft recently taught its XiaoIce chatbot, a Chinese language conversational AI, how to interpret pictures as poems. We’re not sure if that counts as inspired writing, but it’s an interesting step ...

In today’s post called, “Bridging Poetry and the Subconscious with Visual Images,” poetry facilitator and hypnotherapist Terhi K. Cherry investigates this theme. Terhi explained: As a poetry ...

Here is a book that offers up a pleasantly tricky problem of definition at the very outset: Meera Ganapathi, author of several children’s books and editor of the literary publication The Soup, has ...

Today’s post is by poetry facilitator and hypnotherapist Terhi K. Cherry. Terhi explained: As a poetry facilitator and a hypnotherapist, I support creativity tapping into the subconscious mind. We are ...