The modernist poet William Carlos Williams wrote that "men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found" in poetry. What, exactly, did he mean by that? To find out, we must close read the text. Close reading treats text as art, not as content, or information, or as a set of facts to learn for some other purpose. We study art because it is good to study art: it keeps us from dying miserably. Now, AI is coming for the work we do in the humanities. Please join the Sixteenth Annual Naseeb Shaheen Memorial Lecture at The University of Memphis in welcoming Dan Sinykin, author of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century.