Among the five works nominated for this year’s Griffin Poetry Prize is a collection from Iman Mersal, whose unflinching poems put in stark terms the realities of everyday life. But Mersal’s name is ...

A poem is an artifact constructed from carefully chosen words; changing the language can’t help but – in some part – destroy the original creation. RBTH literary critic Phoebe Taplin explores Russia’s ...

Sitting barefoot in his Bellaire home, Fady Joudah parses the particulars of his life. He is a poet, a physician and a Palestinian-American. Not necessarily in that order and certainly not to the ...

Editor Miles Leeson presents Poems from an Attic, a newly published collection of Iris Murdoch’s previously unseen poetry. Found in a box long after her death, these intimate verses offer fresh ...

The latest album by California-based classical music composer Mark Abel owes a lot to Bowdoin scholar Alyssa Gillespie, chair of the Russian department. “It was a wonderful experience collaborating ...

George Seferis, “Three Secret Poems,” in ‘M. Byron Raizis, Greek Poetry Translations: Views, Texts, Reviews’ (Athens: Efstathiadis, 1983), 164–65 (© Cy Twombly, reproduced courtesy Alessandro Twombly, ...

Bill Porter translates ancient Chinese poetry using the name Red Pine. (Photo by Jeff Baker) PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. – To get to Red Pine's house from the middle of town, you have to dodge some deer.

"It's what we call AI complete," says Dmitriy Genzel, a research scientist at Google. "Which means it's as difficult as anything we can attempt in artificial intelligence." Programming a machine to ...

London’s British Museum has removed two poems by the early-20th-century feminist revolutionary and poet Qiu Jin from view after Vancouver writer Yilin Wang accused the institution of reproducing her ...