"Jesse Damiani speaks to Sasha Stiles about how NFTs are unlocking poetry as a technology."

"Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity."

>"Does poetry have any place in a war zone? For one correspondent, it is indispensable."

“I see no difference,” the poet Paul Celan wrote, “between a handshake and a poem.” At this time of quarantines, of social distancing, many of our familiar physical interactions — a handshake, a hug — have become longed-for memories. Recent _...Read More_

Bootlegging Nonsense, an Interview with Shanzhai Lyric _...Read More_

"Good personal writing can create this strong sense of kinship with a stranger. Jamaica Kincaid’s essays on spending her twenties in New York in the ’60s have the same effect on me."

THE BODY, THE PLANE, THE CAMERA _...Read More_

[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/06/books/auden-musee-des-beaux-arts.html](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/06/books/auden-musee-des-beaux-arts.html) Good morning! I wrote a Close Read feature on a poem I've always loved, Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts." This was an experience to write and I hope it will _...Read More_

>"Poets from Thomas Hardy to TS Eliot and Wendy Cope articulate the wonder – and dread – of the festive season"

“In effect the single word is a new reading process; like electricity — instant and continuous.”

>"The former poet laureate considers how we look at American history."

>"“The old soul that dwells at the core of each person has a tolerance for chaos and an instinct for survival. Not in the simple biological terms of survival of the _...Read More_

Poetic Justice by Natasha Stagg Good poetry and graceful aging might be casualties of the reality TV era, but at least we can all star in our own private dramas – or opt out and gossip anonymously.