Emily Singeisen contextualizes AI, a technologically novel way of exploiting language, within some very old fantasies.

Prompted by a rhetorical study guide question, “Is the urn’s slenderness and round opening attractive?”, Andrew McInnes has his own question about lyric voice and unfulfilled desire: “Does Keats want to fuck the urn?”

In her essay about image description and “disability ekphrasis,” Kate Nesin reconsiders the idea that our primary encounter with an artwork is visual, leading instead with the texture and detail of words.