10+ Best Articles on Poetry
The most useful articles on poetry from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
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Top 5 Poetry Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on poetry by Refind users in 2026 so far.
- Building Another Kind of Peace: How Poetry Help Can Calm Our Tumultuous Spirits
- Can AI Write Authentic Poetry?
- Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry
- A Spell Against Fear: Tracy K. Smith on Poetry and The Art of Productive Impatience
- Kamran Javadizadeh: "Ahead of Time"
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How to Read “Gilgamesh”
The heart of the world’s oldest long poem is found in its gaps and mysteries.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on poetry—all under 10 minutes.
A Spell Against Fear: Tracy K. Smith on Poetry and The Art of Productive Impatience
“What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?” asked the Proust Questionnaire. “Living in fear,” answered David Bowie. The most menacing word of the three is the smalle…
Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry
Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry in a new series from Poets.org: “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Margaret …
Building Another Kind of Peace: How Poetry Help Can Calm Our Tumultuous Spirits
I. Reading Inside the shelter’s garden level cafeteria, we sat in a circle. Light from the bright, spring afternoons would beat against the floor, imbuing the space with warmth. I felt nervous. I w…
I Feel, Therefore I Understand: Humboldt on the Essence of Science and How to Read the Poetry…
Born in the heyday of the denial of the human animal’s animality, in a world where nature was considered an ember of wildness to extinguish with civilization, its partitioned mystery dissecte…
In an Age of Science, Tennyson Grappled with an Unsettling New World
His poetry reckoned with the immensities of reality, time, and grief, confronting a world upended by new truths about the earth and the heavens.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on poetry.
Can AI Write Authentic Poetry?
Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
Why poetry is a variety of mathematical experience
Machine learning theory is shedding new light on how to think about the mysterious and ineffable nature of art
Essay: Spring, Like Us, Grows Old
An essay about poetry, language learning, and growing older
Bert Meyers's "Driving Home at Night with My Children After Their Grandfather’s Funeral"
Thoughts on poetry as disarmament.
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