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 ...
An AI “Poetry Camera” is turning images into words. It is essentially reversing the current trend of generating images from textual inputs. Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) has been ...
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: ...
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 ...
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 this course we will study artists and poets who are creating comics poetry for inspiration, and students will generate their own comics poems using the techniques and strategies that speak to them.
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 ...