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'AI Bullshit' Makes Poets Mad

Is AI-written poetry cheating if you laboriously trained the AI?

Reason · May 7, 2024

‘When you support Third World Press, you support Black people’

The Black publishing house founded by Haki Madhubuti is back on track to replace the book inventory destroyed last year due to a devastating flooded basement.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 15, 2023

Poem of the week: Grains by Esther Kondo

The simple act of planting seed corn is followed through to a rich legacy

The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2023

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Poets’ dress code: what the clothes of Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde and Stevie Smith tell us about their inner lives

A new exhibition, dovetailing with the 60th anniversary of Plath’s death, showcases a skirt she wore to Paris in 1956, Smith’s collection of pristine shirt collars, and the symbolic asymmetric kaftan worn by Lorde after her mastectomy

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2023

Chicago as a poem: The birthplace of slam poetry finally gets a contemporary anthology of poetry

CHICAGO — Some days the hardest thing in the world is explaining Chicago to someone not from Chicago. Other days, particularly when you already live here, the hardest thing is seeing the city clearly, as vast and varied, as larger than your block, your neighborhood or your ward. Hence, the…

Chicago Tribune · Jun 15, 2022

137 years ago, an Italian visionary changed the way we consume coffee forever

In this edition of Inverse Daily, read about the science of espresso making, a Full Moon to watch out for, a NASA Artemis I update, and more.

Inverse · Jun 7, 2022

We can’t depend on the Supreme Court to be our conscience on abortion

We — I mean Black women of my age — keep our feelings on the subject buried. But the prospect Roe v. Wade might be overturned could bring back painful memories for many.

Chicago Sun-Times · May 6, 2022

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Tracking down the family and the famous

The National Archives unlocked the U.S. Census for 1950 on Friday. Poking around is fun, if you know how to look.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 3, 2022

A look at the Chicago homes where Black history-makers lived

From Gwendolyn Brooks to Nat "King" Cole, iconic Black figures have called Chicago home. Here’s where to find some of the places these legendary musicians, writers and activists lived.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 15, 2022

History is a journey we all must take together

Black History Month arrives with American history under assault all around the country.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 1, 2022

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