Pop culture meets poetry: explainers, author interviews, book reviews, & exercises for the creative mind and writers of all kinds. Written by Caitlin Cowan.
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The three-hour, $250-million film is the best-ever adaptation of the poem, but the famed director punted on an important question about poetry (and poets) in our time.
I KNOW. I know.
No poetry in this Odyssey retelling but plenty of folk music. Is that the same thing? In a post-literate age, O Brother, Where Art Thou? hits different.
A completely different take on The Odyssey that strips it of almost everything, except its eyes.
How do you cram 12,000 lines of poetry into 94 minutes? Well, you don’t.
Thanks to Christopher Nolan, The Odyssey is "in" this summer. Let’s delve into some notable adaptations before Matt Damon takes the mantle.
Stimpy penned some deeply mid poetry right off the bat in S1E1. The results? A chuckle-worthy bag of cash. Commentary!
A behind-the-scenes series on writing, revision, and how to make your poems come alive.
An almost-biopic about one of the literary world's grittiest characters leans into poetic stereotypes we've left behind... or have we?
In which I subject Sufjan Stevens to scansion.
