In the wake of the recent controversy, a University of Auckland linguistics expert says he believes it is still one of the worst swear words.

A FESTIVAL celebrating the life of Alyce Chaucer will be held in Ewelme. The event, which is named after her, will take place from next Friday to Sunday. Alyce, the granddaughter of poet Geoffrey ...

Experts will gather in an Oxfordshire village later this month to discuss the life and times of a historic figure. Alice Chaucer, a notable benefactor of Ewelme, will be the focus of the talks taking ...

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A creature once revered in ancient Chinese folklore and immortalized in poetry for its playful spirit and perpetual smile is now swimming against extinction. The Yangtze finless porpoise—Asia ...

In these times of misplaced nationalism and war-mongering, it's indeed ironic to remember that the poet and Nobel laureate who wrote India's national anthem was remarkably universal in his vision ...

As of Tuesday, the new Illinois Poet Laureate is named Mark Turcotte and this is a portion of one of his poems, the beginning stanza of “Flies Buzzing.” “Mark Turcotte’s work reflects the ...

In a career spanning more than four decades, Shaji carved a place for himself among the most respected voices in Indian cinema — his frames breathing poetry, his stories whispering the silent aches of ...

In writer and poet Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay’s 2010 poem “Misfit,” the speaker of the poem notes that other people often ostracize him for his differences. But he doesn’t care ...

Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “Godfather of AI,” has joined a growing chorus of experts and former employees urging regulators to block OpenAI's controversial restructuring plans. What ...

Launched in 2014 by former Georgia poet laureate Judson Mitcham, in collaboration with the Georgia Council for the Arts, the Georgia Poet Laureate’s Prize is an annual program designed to ...