With culture as a space of action, artists can showcase alternative ways of being American in defiance of Trumpism. 

Bringing a provocative perspective to the poetry wars that have divided practitioners and critics for decades, Gillian White argues that the sharp disagreements surrounding contemporary poetics have been shaped by “lyric shame”—an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be. What follows is an excerpt from the Introduction.

Over at the National Humanities Center’s On the Human website, Paula Moya has posted a fascinating piece on cultural neuroscience, science reporting, and race.

I love words. And I love books. And I have been known to fall in love with a couple databases (specifically those I don’t have to compile myself).

A quick reaction to "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books."

There is no double meaning, second degree and third interpretative level to be found in this post. Nothing metapoetic, cutting-edge, smart, hype, or poetic. No trope, no refined aesthetics, no beauty. But meaning yes, humanity yes, community yes. And a call to Arcade as a social network to spread a simple idea.

When people say that the internet doesn't have any culture, I respectfully disagree. i.e...