The spoken word event featured poet Sarah Kay and performances from Stanford’s Spoken Word Collective, which disentangled ...

The story never reveals the nasty rumor about P., and this is just one of several bits of withheld information in the story. Disclosure, or its lack, both shapes the story and is the subject of this ...

From an almost whimsical beginning, these verses on wishing to overcome mortality grow lyrical and deeply moving ...

Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer on Wednesday amid immigration enforcement in Minneapolis.

Our critic A.O. Scott feels the heat of a wintry lyric by the Nobel laureate Louise Glück. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott A.O. Scott, a critic at large for the Book Review, recorded the poem that ...

In The Republic, Plato banished poets for their power to distort judgment. Two thousand years later, that ancient warning is echoing in the digital age. A team of researchers in Rome has discovered ...

Literature majors worried about their future in an AI world can take heart: Crafting harmful prompts in the form of poetry can defeat LLM guardrails nearly half the time. That’s the conclusion of a ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots such as ChatGPT and Gemini are widely used today for their ability to answer questions, draft text, and assist users with diverse tasks. But shockingly, new ...

Researchers reveal that poetic prompts can fool AI chatbots into sharing dangerous information. This flaw raises serious concerns about current AI safety and its ability to detect subtle threats. A ...

Researchers found that rephrasing harmful prompts as poems made it much easier to slip past safety systems in 25 tested language models. In some cases, the poetic versions worked every time. According ...

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the summit of a mountain while they paid tribute to the gods, ...

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” — William Shakespeare, 'Romeo and Juliet' Ask most people for a list of the most illustrious poets of all time, ...