With the new decade fast-approaching, I can’t help but think about reinvention.Studio 360has done several segments that take dusty old ideas and wipe them clean with poetry. Recycling them into verse can reveal surprises. Here are some of my favorites. Susan B.A. Somers-Willet created poems based on the impoverished mothers of Troy, Michigan. I especially […]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change generated a lot of news reports — but none of them put the report quite in the context of this NOAA scientist. Rather than use mere prose, Johnson turned to Haiku and illustrations to The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change generated a lot of news reports — but none of them put the report quite in the context of this NOAA scientist. Rather than use mere prose, Johnson turned to Haiku and illustrations to
To many, the Metsappear destined for a fifthstraight losing season. That phrase is more than a sad fact – it’s a poem. Specifically, a haiku spotted by the nimble eyes of The New York Times’ latest toy: the haikubot. The haikubot combs the text of every New York Times article as it’s published in search of […]