The second annual Landesman Lecture features UC Santa Cruz professor Enrico Ramirez Ruiz in conversation with slam poet ...

If science fiction has taught us anything it's that artificial intelligence will one day lead to the downfall of the entirety of mankind. That day is (probably) still a long way away, if it ever ...

I wrote this essay concurrently with doing research for a book on biomimetics. Two poems lived with me constantly during this process and provided epigraphs to most of the chapters. They exemplify one ...

Janna Levin reading poetry at Universe in Verse at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn in 2018. Credit: Annie Minoff Every year, hundreds pack Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, New York for “The Universe In Verse,” a ...

SCIENCE VERSE, by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, Viking, 2004, 40 pages, $16.99 (ISBN 0-670-91057-0) "Science Verse," written by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith, is a charming collection of ...

How meaning slips from lyric imagination to power and code in the post-Enlightenment age Christopher Caudwell foresaw the ...

Four Indian-origin scholars, including Amitav Ghosh and Megha Majumdar, are named among 223 Guggenheim Fellows 2026 across ...

In “Can Our Eyes Fool Our Taste Buds?,” children’s poet April Halprin Wayland summarizes a fun experiment in taste perception where people were quizzed after drinking red and green drinks that ...