Poetry and song were once the same: The first poems were recited to music played on the lyre. (It's the source of the word "lyric.") Today, poems are published in books and journals, while songs ...

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In the days of the ancient Greeks, poetry and sport went hand in hand at athletic festivals like the Olympics. Morning Edition is reviving that tradition with the Poetry Games. We've invited poets ...

She is working with a group that recreated an ancient lyre and aims to reverse-engineer music of the second millennium B.C. Are there any traces of Babylonian music, which hasn’t been heard for ...

When people think of artificial intelligence, the images that often come to mind are of the sinister robots that populate the worlds of “The Terminator,” “i, Robot,” “Westworld,” and ...

The poetry lies not especially in the poets' technique, although Lucretius is immensely readable in translation: it lies more in the subject matter and the blazing ardour brought to bear on it.

Unprecedented times call for innovative solutions, and we believe all aspects of poetry—reading, writing and sharing—can serve as an incredible antidote to loneliness.

Now that she is retired, she is still active in the math poetry world, often participating in poetry events at the annual Joint Mathematics Meetings, the largest math conference in the U.S., and ...