Canadian poet Christian Bök and University of Texas chemical engineer Lydia Contreras have embedded a poem into the DNA of one of Earth’s toughest organisms. This microbe could preserve art for ...
One needn’t look much further than the Sistine Chapel to know that Michelangelo spent many hours contemplating eternity. In addition to his art, his poetry shows his mind was similarly engaged. His ...
At Coach House Books, poet Christian Bök (pronounced “book”) is stuffing signed and lettered copies of his first collection of poetry in 14 years, The Xenotext: Book 1, into zippered wallets. He’ll ...
As long as the history of English literature is taught in universities, the charm of the immortal poem “A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns will endure in China. I first came across the poem by the ...