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Getty ; The Atlantic What Poets Know That ChatGPT Doesn’t
There’s a reason the AI writes pretty awful verse.
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The Atlantic; Library of Congress; Stuart A. Rose … America’s Byron
Remembering the poet and novelist James Dickey on his centennial
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Daniele Castellano T. S. Eliot Saw All This Coming
One hundred years after the publication of The Waste Land, its vision has never been more terrifying.
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Monica Almeida / The New York Times / … ‘I Am a Writer Because of bell hooks’
When the revolutionary intellectual found her voice, she helped a generation of Black Kentucky women writers find theirs too.
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Natasha Trethewey / Katie Martin / The Atlantic How Poetry Can Guide Us Through Trauma
A former U.S. poet laureate’s new memoir reflects on the power of storytelling to help us grieve—and offers lessons for surviving the cataclysms of the present.
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Universal History Archive / Mondadori Portfolio / Getty … The Encounter That Revealed a Different Side of Emily Dickinson
After eight years of letter writing, the author Thomas Wentworth Higginson finally met the reclusive poet face-to-face.
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Mengwen Cao Going Home With Ocean Vuong
He’s best known as an award-winning young poet, and he’s now getting attention for his novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. But I first knew him as a talented writer a couple of years ahead of me in high school.
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Audrey McAvoy / AP / Shutterstock / The … The Poet of Premature Endings
In his work for The Atlantic, W. S. Merwin often wrote about time slipping away and goals remaining just out of reach.
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Matthew Valentine W. S. Merwin’s Poems of Ethical Care
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, who died last week at 91, found an enduring language to express his anguish at what human exploitation has done to the world.
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Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Getty The Language the Poet Knows
A new collection of essays attempts to lend some objective shape to a timeless-seeming challenge: the ongoing balance of voice and form.
