Every so often, you will hear lamentations about the sorry state of high-brow forms of art, particularly classical music and poetry. These forms of art, we are told, are dying. They are dying from ...
Google continues to inch forward in its quest to make it even harder for the Poet Laureate to continue to ply their trade. On Monday, the company announced a new AI project called Verse by Verse. You ...
Considered one of the most influential literature scholars of recent times, 98-year-old Yeh Chia-Ying is committed to ongoing classical Chinese poetry research and teaching in China and beyond. Born ...
Young Iranian musician Parvaz Homay draws on classical Persian music and poetry, but he offers his own interpretations and also writes original lyrics that have disturbed government officials to the ...
A 16-year-old high school student has won admiration from TV viewers and internet users alike after storming to victory on the second season of “Chinese Poetry Conference,” a show broadcast nationwide ...
A manga called Chihayafuru about an intense card game based on knowledge of classical poetry drew Li Kotomi to the Hyakunin isshu anthology and travel to places connected with it. When it comes to ...
More than 90 spectators enjoyed on Feb. 15 Aristoi Classical Academy’s Second Annual Goblet of Apollo — Tea & Poetry Competition which included more than 180 fifth- and sixth-grade scholars at Aristoi ...
Poetry is the language of the soul and a bridge across cultures. The 2025 Classical Chinese Poetry Contest, a co-production of China Media Group, the Ministry of Education of China, and the State ...
When David L. Harrison asked a number of us to write a column about “Poetry from Daily Life,” I thought of Harry Bliss’ New Yorker cartoon: He draws a lady introducing her son as a poet. The folks ...
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