9 Best Articles in 2021
TIME
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020
TIME
2020-11-11 · Introducing this year's best fiction, nonfiction and poetry
Literary Hub
Nikki Giovanni: Why We Need Poetry
Literary Hub
2 min read · 2020-10-21 · Poetry is like a child in many ways: it grows and grows adding whatever is needed: teeth, longer legs, a mind that discriminates. Or maybe its like a thorn tree: it grows but you have to be careful…
The New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2020
The New York Times
20+ min read · 2020-11-20 · The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review
Ness Labs
The creative brain: three ways to cultivate your creative thinking
Ness Labs
3 min read · Aug 4th · Creativity is everywhere around us — in the random colors of an artist’s painting, the verses of profound poetry, or an inspiring sculpture crafted from muddy clay. However, being creative is not just…
The New Yorker
Introducing the New Yorker Poetry Bot
The New Yorker
3 min read · From 2017 · A new way to discover, read, listen to and share poetry from the magazine’s archive.
New York Magazine
How to Major in Unicorn
New York Magazine
~16 min read · From 2019 · Many of the 1,700 freshmen arriving in Palo Alto this September didn’t come for the Romantic poetry but to network, raise capital, and drop out.
Brain Pickings
Kiss of the Sun: Poetry, Love, and Our Search for Meaning at the End of Time
Brain Pickings
3 min read · Apr 16th · A field guide to making joyous peace with “the end of time, which is also the end of poetry (and wheat and evil and insects and love).”
The New York Times
Pulitzer Prizes: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists
The New York Times
5 min read · 2020-05-05 · Here are the 2020 contenders for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, history and biography.
newcriterion.com
On “getting” poetry by Adam Kirsch
newcriterion.com
~14 min read · Mar 30th · Adam Kirsch on deriving pleasure from poetry.
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Guardian Books
Akala, Bernardine Evaristo, Ben Okri and more pick 20 classic books by writers of colour
Guardian Books
~19 min read · Oct 3rd · Twenty contemporary writers recommend overlooked novels, essays and poetry that deserve to sit alongside the classics on our bookshelves
Seth Godin
Art with intent
Seth Godin
1 min read · Oct 23rd · Art (movies, plays, fiction, paintings, poetry…) exists to create a change. Often, that’s a change in the viewer, and sometimes, powerful art changes the culture. Art with no intent can…
Guardian Books
‘I don’t care’: text shows modern poetry began much earlier than believed
Guardian Books
3 min read · Sep 8th · Academic finds that lines widely reproduced in the eastern Roman empire are ‘stressed’ in a way that laid the foundations for what we recognise as poetry
Aeon+Psyche
Sufi love poetry is in vogue, but few grasp its radical meaning
Aeon+Psyche
6 min read · Oct 13th · The Sufi path to love in the poetry of Rumi and ‘Iraqi styles the body as a bridge to the divine in deeply erotic ways
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TIME
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2019
TIME
1 min read · 2019-11-14 · Introducing this year’s best fiction, nonfiction and poetry
Aeon+Psyche
How ancient poetry can revitalise our erotic imaginations
Aeon+Psyche
~11 min read · From 2019 · Why the ancient erotic poems of Sappho and Wallada bint al-Mustakfi are far more stimulating than modern pornography
Aeon+Psyche
In times of crisis, the arts are weapons for the soul
Aeon+Psyche
~11 min read · 2020-11-16 · A violinist plays in a concentration camp. A refugee carries a book of poetry. Art sustains us when survival is uncertain
Brain Pickings
Shelley on Poetry and the Art of Seeing
Brain Pickings
2 min read · From 2019 · “Poetry… reproduces the common universe of which we are portions and percipients, and it purges from our inward sight the film of familiarity which obscures from us the wonder of our be…
Splinter
A poem about Silicon Valley, assembled from Quora questions about Silicon Valley
Splinter
1 min read · From 2019 · Why do so many startups fail? Why are all the hosts on CouchSurfing male? Are we going to be tweeting for the rest of our lives? Why do Silicon Valley billionaires choose average-looking wives?
Guardian Books
Caught in time’s current: Margaret Atwood on grief, poetry and the past four years
Guardian Books
9 min read · 2020-11-07 · In an exclusive new poem and essay Margaret Atwood reflects on the passing of time and how to create lasting art in a rapidly changing world
Electric Literature
31 Poets Recommend 31 Poetry Books to Read Every Day in August
Electric Literature
~20 min read · From 2019 · Poet Nicole Sealey challenges you to read one poetry book a day this month, and Ocean Vuong, Hanif Abdurraqib, and others are here to tell you where to start
The Paris Review
Comics as Poetry
The Paris Review
8 min read · 2020-01-30 · Ivan Brunetti on Lynda Barry, and all the things that can happen in the space of four panels.
The New York Times
My Name Is GPT-3 and I Approved This Article
The New York Times
~13 min read · 2020-11-24 · The latest natural-language system generates tweets, pens poetry, summarizes emails, answers trivia questions, translates languages and even writes its own computer programs.
