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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever since Plato banished poets and painters from his ideal republic, artists, poets, philosophers, and critics have struggled to sort out the relationship between word (poetry) and image (painting).

Here is a book that offers up a pleasantly tricky problem of definition at the very outset: Meera Ganapathi, author of several children’s books and editor of the literary publication The Soup, has ...

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 ...