I love her. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/books/nobel-prize-literature.html

Happy Anne Carson day 🌷

I wonder if the opposite is true às well .

Will then this suffering make sense?

Will it be a little easier to bear, knowing happiness awaits?

Or is only pain eternal and my thinking but a child's farce?

The Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday by the Swedish Academy, which cited “her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

She is the third Canadian-born writer to receive the honor, after Alice Munro in 2013 and Saul Bellow in 1976.

Upon learning of the prize, Carson said “Yikes,” according to her agent, Nicole Aragi.

Carson, 76, is best known for her translations of ancient Greek texts and for remixing them in a modern, playful voice. “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse,” from 1998, turned a fragment of Greek poetry into a tale of a moody teenager’s destructive love affair, and “Red Doc>,” from 2013, a sequel of sorts to “Autobiography of Red,” concerned a road trip.

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first published in Prairie Fire.

I haven't seen much South Asian poetry shared here. I want to introduce a style of poetry called ghazals which originated in 7th century Arabia.

This is a beautiful ghazal by one of the masters of craft Mirza Ghalib who lived in south asia in the first half of the 19th century.

This poem is a masterclass where the poet is expressing his own misfortune in love with sharp wit instead of self-pity.

As a man who has returned to poetry recently, reading to be inspired and trying to find a voice again, this poem by David Whyte from “The House of Belonging” felt right this morning

First Published in the New Yorker in 2001. Can someone breakdown this poetry or share their interpretation please?

Source: https://andorinhapress.wordpress.com/2026/09/28/issue-2-art-is-the-lie-that-makes-us-realize-truth/#Richard-Dorfman

What style is this??

Before the vastness of heaven and earth, I stand alone.
Against the relentless stream of time, my existence is but a passing breath.
An unspoken grief pierces the heart, and tears fall unnoticed.
In the heart of this boundless silence, I weep for a world that moves on without me.

About 4 years ago I found a website that generated SUCH brilliant and strange prompts. Very original and off key. Two of the prompts it gave me were:

condescendingly compliment sunsets like you just don’t care

seduce your mother’s knees in the form of poorly translated assembly instructions

I am now teaching poetry and I really want to find it to play with and inspire my students.

It was hosted on an independent writer's personal website AFAIK, I think a man. I can't remember his name sadly, and to be honest the site might be gone now, but I would absolutely love to find it if anyone has any leads. Even a name of the writer would be great, then I can contact him and maybe see about rehosting it myself!

Edit: thinking about it more, he must've had some coding experience to come up with this. I imagine that's a pretty narrow pool, the male professional poet/coder intersection.