Chihiro soon finds herself lost in the spirit world and is unable to return home the same way she came. While trying to find ...

Poetry is, quite simply, the activity for which Queen’s University is best known around the world. Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney was both a student and lecturer here at Queen’s, and other famous ...

In our series Making of a Poem, we ask poets to dissect the poems they’ve contributed to our pages. Zain Baweja’s “Gloss,” which appears in our Summer issue, no. 256, plays with the etymological ...

Maitland was an educated, intellectual and self-determining woman and who found (and, sadly, lost) her big love.

Hermes with his mother Maia. Detail of the side B of an Attic red-figure belly-amphora, ca. 500 BC painted by Nikoxenos. Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Some of the Homeric Hymns are simple ...

Latest AI mystery is that there are 11 specific nouns used frequently by LLMs when creating short stories. Why those words?

On the eve of July 4, 1876, a New York broadside marked America’s centennial with something extraordinary: the first Hebrew poem to probe the essence of America. The poem, which appeared with an ...

We acknowledge institutional support from Goldsmiths, University of London, where data collection took place. S.C. and J.B. designed research; S.C. acquired data; D.M ...

AI-powered tools are already being widely used by lawyers to translate legal documents from one language to the next. The mass market romance publisher Harlequin has turned to AI to translate its ...

More than 300 young people submitted their poems to a nonprofit I run, called 1455 Storytelling Arts. The poets mostly come from the U.S., but nine other countries are represented.

[2026.05.22] Release: FastCCC v1.0.1 is now available. This release fixes several potential bugs, adds coding-agent skills for natural-language FastCCC workflows, and improves automated reports with ...

Lots of people claim that writing poetry is something only humans can do. It requires emotion, wordcraft, and the unique body of painful, jubilant lived experience that only a person can accumulate.