Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

Often when we listen to music, we just instinctually enjoy it. Sometimes, though, it's worth dissecting a song or other composition to figure out how ...

The problem with potemkins in AI models is that they invalidate benchmarks, the researchers argue. The purpose of benchmark ...

As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English. In fact, it's so tricky ...

MIT, Harvard and University of Chicago researchers say models suffer from "potemkin understanding," referring to an illusion ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

Through smog and soot and horrid dust,/You will have to endure/To make a wage... This verse can evoke a more eloquent exp ...

You might have meant a ladies’ magazine which has a party line as rigid and sterile as that of, say, either the Communist or ...

In dramatising Lucifer’s rebellion against God, his battalions of angels being hurled into hell, Satan’s defiant rise, the ...

This essay explores how radical attention, poetic memory, and ethical presence can guide not only writing but also ...

I’m enjoying a documentary about the Cold War, which, not surprisingly, includes a segment regarding the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy is infamously known as the primary prosecutor of the […] ...