Words evolve not as blobs of ink on paper but in face to face interaction. The nature of language as fundamentally interactive and multimodal is shown by the study of ideophones, vivid sensory words ...

Our ancestors emerged as a species 200,000 years ago and figured out how to use language about 100,000 years later. Scientists haven’t figured out how human language developed in the first place, ...

Mary Lum is a collagist and flaneuse who explores streets and archives. The poet Charles Baudelaire, who coined the “flaneur,” considered it a male designation. Lum upends that perception, as well as ...

In the history of English Literature, the bond of painting and poetry has been given many forms; most common of all is Ekphrastic poetry, in which poems were written through inspiration from painting.

The Vermont College of Fine Arts‘ spacious College Hall Gallery has undergone a transformation since its days as the T.W. Wood Gallery. Sporting a new maple floor, and no longer darkened by partitions ...