Smithsonian Magazine

Researchers Discovered a Lost Copy of the Oldest English Poem, Composed by an Illiterate Cowherd More Than 1,300 Years Ago

This version of "Caedmon’s Hymn" shows how Old English evolved. It also features early use of a punctuation mark that readers ...
Ancient Origins

Oldest Poem in English Discovered in Manuscript in Rome

A remarkable manuscript discovered in Rome has brought to light a rare early copy of Cædmon's Hymn, widely considered the oldest known poem in the English language. Dating to the early ninth century, ...

New copy of earliest poem in English language discovered by researchers in Rome

An early ninth-century manuscript containing a text of the first known poem in the English language has been discovered in ...

I built an AI poem generator. I wasn’t prepared for how people would use it

To put that theory into practice, I teamed up with my friend Jared Bauman, built an AI-powered poem generator, and released ...
The Harvard Crimson

A List of Spring Poems You Should Read, And Why are So Many Poets Named William?

Spring is finally on its way to Cambridge, but before the magnolias bloom, we must endure the inevitable floods of Spring rain. If you find yourself stuck indoors this week, there’s no better ...
America Magazine

Dylan Thomas was a difficult person. But ‘Fern Hill’ is a perfect poem.

A farmhouse in a remote location in Wales. Credit: iStock. Editors’ note: This essay is part of a series by Father Jayme Stayer, S.J., a professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, reflecting ...
Newsweek

Renee Nicole Good’s Award-Winning Poem: Read Excerpt

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis poet, wife and mother, was ...
Wired

Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon

You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. The study, "Adversarial Poetry as a ...
The Conversation

100 years on, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men is a poem for our populist moment

In 1927, at 38 years of age, the expatriated American poet T.S. Eliot was baptised and confirmed in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. The celebrated author of The Waste Land (1922) – that literary paragon ...
Futurism

Scientists Discover “Universal” Jailbreak for Nearly Every AI, and the Way It Works Will Hurt Your Brain

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AOL

What Taylor Swift's 'The Life of a Showgirl' Poems Reveal About Travis Kelce and Fame

Just as she did with The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift wrote poems to accompany her new album, The Life of a Showgirl. Each vinyl variant (a few of which are subtitled “The Tiny Bubbles in ...
NPR

Letter poems to friends — of all kinds — in 'Dear Acorn, (Love, Oak)'

Some people text, some e-mail, but there's almost nothing better than getting an actual letter in the mail, especially if it's a letter poem. "A letter poem is when you're addressing someone else," ...