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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Reality Still Bites
It’s pretty surreal to re-watch Reality Bites in 2026. Irresistible 1994 Winona Ryder opens the film by complaining during her college graduation speech that young people of her generation have to right the wrongs of their parents, but admi...
How I Write: “This Book Is Too Long, This Book Will Never Be Long Enough”
This is a PopPoetry guest post by Jennifer Schomburg Kanke.
How I Write is a semi-regular feature of PopPoetry, in which writers share how they write, revise, and think about their work: with a pop culture twist, of course.
Want to write...
All That Glitters: David Duchovny Can Write
There’s something about Mary Karr saying “Buy this book!” that just makes me laugh. But in all seriousness, you should buy the book. But not because I told you to!
You’re reading All That Glitters: (Re)appraisals of musicians, actors, and...
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey Is Epic, but His Estimation of Poetry's Place in Our Culture Is Minuscule.
Here we are: the final installment of PopPoetry’s Epic Summer Odyssey. We looked back at silver screen adaptations of Homer’s famous poem all summer long in anticipation of Christopher Nolan’s latest film. Check out the archive of these pos...
I've Got Some Bad News: The Ralph Fiennes Odyssey Adaptation Is... OK.
This is PopPoetry’s Epic Summer Odyssey: We’re looking back at silver screen adaptations of Homer’s famous poem in the run-up to the film event of 2026: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Subscribe to get each weekly installment of the series...
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Author of SOLITARY (YesYes Books, 2027) & HAPPY EVERYTHING (Cornerstone Press, 2024). Fresh-coast writer, educator, and arts nonprofit exec with a PhD in English and an honorary degree in 30 Rock quotations.
I interview writers about their favorite books, as well as get them to dish out some great advice. There are also writing prompts using my Mayhem to Meter method that are inspired by the interviews, as well as some posts about my own writing.
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