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Poems from centuries ago can stand in dialogue with painters speaking to their contemporaries, and calligraphy serves as a ...

The Grand Jury of Middlesex County Court, in England, was presented with a work that corrupted public morals to such an ...

OpenAI founder Sam Altman's first post of 2025 was a poem about technological singularity, raising concerns and questions about the future of AI and human civilization.

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In Paris in 1740 the hangman publicly burned his most famous book. In England some of the best and brightest – Alexander Pope ...

Picture poetry as a bridge, spanning the gap between our inner worlds and the vast universe around us, making the intangible tangible and the unseen seen. These poems are like old friends who know ...

Maria Hummel’s novel “Goldenseal” involves two female friends who meet up at a Los Angeles luxury hotel in 1990. Her two ...

Mort's collection "Music for the Dead and Resurrected" won the 2021 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. Her other honors include a 2021 Rome Prize in literature and ...

China often hands down death sentences and tough jail terms in big corruption cases. Has the hangman's noose actually helped China bring down cases of corruption and the magnitude of scams? Listen to ...

Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Let’s talk about love. That’s what the people in this poem seem to be doing. The author and her friend, a scholar, are debating the crushworthiness of a certain ...