by R.H. Long

Taina Bucher interviews artist and bot maker Katie Rose Pipkin about her most popular Twitter bots, how they work and what they mean. Indeed, what are bots, who else is engaged in artistic bot making, and how will social media bots evolve?

Deconstruction and then reconstruction — that process comes into play whether you’re making a medical diagnosis, putting oil paint on canvas, or writing poetry.

[What if] Sylvia Plath once got blazed with Frida Kahlo. This is the setting of Musas, which invites us to be a fly on the wall and listen in on these women’s conversations as they smoke, eat, play, and work… By Daniel Larkin. (Aug. ’15)

Alice Duer Miller's analysis of contemporary politics not only made anti-suffragist politicians look stupid. It also made her (and women like her) look completely capable of participating in the political sphere.

The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is a lawless no-man's-land where violence and suffering rage, and no one has it harder than the region's 21 million Pashtun women. Their mode of rebellion? Short-verse poems called landays. By Eliza Griswold. (Apr. ’14)

‘Vulgar rabble-rouser’, ‘rootless cosmopolitan’, ‘mouthpiece of the empire’ … Kipling has had his share of detractors. But, 150 years after his birth, interest in India’s greatest English-language writer is growing. By Andrew Lycett.

"_______ is the ______ of logical ideas"—Albert Einstein. Do the words "mathematics" or "poetry" fill those blanks? (Nov. 30)

Behind the mask of Rudyard Kipling’s confidence. By Austin Allen.

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Emily Dickinson's poetry, more beautiful than you've ever seen it. 

To make sense of the intellectual climate of Britain on the eve of the Second World War, one could do worse than to turn to the case of W.H. Auden. By Spencer Lenfield.

John Trudell, an American Indian poet, actor, spoken word artist and political activist passed away today, December 8, 2015.

Philip Larkin remains one of Britain’s most controversial – and loved – poets. His friend and colleague James Booth looks back.

Her Syrian cousin died on a migrant ship. This is the poem she wrote for him and other refugees.

Richard Holmes reviews "Those Who Write for Immortality: Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame," by H.J. Jackson, "Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake," by Leo Damrosch, and "Poems" by William Blake, selected and introduced by Patti Smith.

Marjorie Perloff reviews A. David Moody’s “Ezra Pound: Poet. A portrait of the man and his work; Volume Three: The Tragic Years.”