Where are the writers who work on the dock? Where are stevedores, the longshoremen? The pipe fitters? The electricians?” ...

The inner and outer forecasts don’t always match up. This short poem by Louise Glück starts out cold and stays that way for most of its 11 lines. And then it bursts into flame. At first, the emotional ...

The Publication of Kunjana Parashar’s They Gather Around Me, the Animals (in June 2025), is nothing less than a cultural ...

Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.

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The newest of technologies defeated by one of the oldest human arts: poetry. This is what a group of Italian researchers and ...

Classical singer Abiodun Koya discusses her 20-year career, performing for world leaders, and using music and poetry for ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) safety has turned into a constant cat-and-mouse game. As developers add guardrails to block ...

In Belfast, the Seamus Heaney Centre’s literary prestige is aligning with MediaLab’s cutting-edge screen technologies. Together, they’re fostering experimentation in narrative that is reaching far bey ...

This week’s historical stumpers include a TV sign-off highlighting a poem about a soldier’s career and the musical notes ...

While Urdu poetry thrives through gatherings, media, social media and living traditions, anglophone verse, caught between ...

Prepare to uncover the profound riches of human experience and Appalachian tradition as the Black Mountain Center for the ...