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A recent peer-reviewed study published in Nature Scientific Reports and reported on in NewScientist suggests that, in general, humans cannot distinguish between human-written poetry and poems written ...

Videogames and poetry haven't always gone hand in hand. We're still a long way from Master Chief breaking into a Coleridge soliloquy. But game developers Ichiro Lambe and Ziba Scott have edged us a ...

Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

A form called the Golden Shovel honors the poet Gwendolyn Brooks, and you just need a newspaper to get started. By Leah Umansky Celebration and honor are two touchstones of the poetic tradition. With ...

Can a machine incapable of experiencing emotion write poetry that stirs the soul? A neural network trained on thousands of lines of poetry has tried its hand at penning its own rhymes that mimic ...

It wasn’t quite prayer but the more I recited its words the more incantatory power they assumed. What can I say to you, darling, I said to myself, over and over, with hushed focus, When you ask me for ...

T.S. Eliot famously observed in his great poem, “The Four Quartets,” that April is the cruelest month. Economists quote this line every year during the first two weeks of that month when referencing ...

Lyrics are often compared to poetry. Are they a form of "the poetic art?" Are they less "artistic?" Poetry has a romantic aura to it, whereas lyric writing seems rather plebeian (to borrow a word from ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...