The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, was known not just as a tireless advocate for the Civil Rights Movement but as one of its most dynamic orators ...

Recently I had a curtain-opening experience after reading a poem that left me kind of excited. About breaking more rules with the English language.

Through its narrative, the production raises enduring questions about love, violence, and humanity. The words of Sufi poet Bulleh Shah, whose shrine in Mussourie shrine was recently vandalised, ring ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. As the Trump administration looks to create ...

From time to time, it has urgency. It humanizes times, tests and experiences. Does a certain place place certain ideas into our thoughts, or our minds are simply conditioned to ascribe precise notions ...

Fiona Benson’s Midden Witch is a ferocious and frightening book that illuminates those women – often healers, artists – termed ‘witch’. In Benson’s poems a gentle spirit somehow coexists with an ...

From Seamus Heaney’s collected poems and Simon Armitage’s animal spirits, to prizewinners Karen Solie and Vidyan Ravinthiran Many of 2025’s most notable collections have been powered by a spirit of ...

Three years into the "AI future," researchers' creative jailbreaking efforts never cease to amaze. Researchers from the Sapienza University of Rome, the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, and large ...

Across 25 leading AI models, 62% of poetic prompts produced unsafe responses, with some models responding to nearly all of them. Researchers in Italy have discovered that writing harmful prompts in ...

Daryln Brewer Hoffstot is the author of a collection of essays, “A Farm Life: Observations From Fields and Forests.” My husband loves all the trimmings of Thanksgiving, particularly mashed potatoes. I ...

It’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...