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 ...

What is poetry? Is it stanzas written on a page? The flow of words in a certain rhythm? And why have humans done it for thousands of years? These questions are at the heart of a—relatively ...

Poetry is having a moment, in large part because poets such as Smith and Amanda Gorman are ready to meet the moment — with ambitious questions, incomplete answers, and what Smith calls “empathetic ...