Politics And Poetry: 'They Gather Around Me, The Animals'

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

AI language models duped by poems

A new study has shown that prompts in the form of poems confuse AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude — to the point ...

Poetry Break: HD’s 1914 poem ‘Oread’ blurs boundaries of natural world

Hilda Doolittle, known as HD, was a prominent modernist poet of the early 20th century. Her 1914 poem "Oread" is a key ...

Poetry outfoxing AI, for better or verse

A paper on arXiv by researchers at the Icaro Lab in Italy has set off a firestorm of headlines. It begins with a reference to ...

‘If I must die’: poetry from Gaza creates an alternative archive of testimony

Poetry offers something that news and visual imagery cannot in times of crisis: depth over immediacy and meaning over ...
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National Poet Laureate Arthur Sze talks poetry and literary translation at Queens College

Arthur Sze, the national poet laureate appointed by the Library of Congress last month, visited Queens College, in Flushing, ...

I Think This Poem Is Kind of Into You

The inner and outer forecasts don’t always match up. This short poem by Louise Glück starts out cold and stays that way for ...

For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Writing for love’s sake: The poetic world of Gad Kaynar-Kissinger

Gad Kaynar-Kissinger channels his childhood wounds, Jewish-German ancestry into poetry that provokes and reveals. You may not ...
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Sappho, the Ancient Greek Poet

Sappho sang of desire, passion, and love, mostly directed towards women. She remains the most mysterious of ancient poets.
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How a simple poem can trick AI models into building a bomb

Across 25 state-of-the-art models, poetic prompts achieved an average “attack success rate” of 62% for handcrafted poems and ...

'My Manx poems are part of my identity'

A poet on the Isle of Man says her poems in Manx "are part of my identity and are there for others who want to take the language up". Former teacher Annie Kissack, who was appointed the fifth Manx ...