Nathaniel Tarn epitomizes the image we all have of a Cambridge-educated scholar; he is eloquent, dapper, and has that dry, yet biting, wit. However, in a Tuesday talk given by the esteemed poet, ...

https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2012.67.1.1 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/ncl.2012.67.1.1 Copy URL This essay considers a collection of poems written by ...

The Classical World, Vol. 81, No. 2, Studies in Greek Lyric Poetry: 1975-1985. Part I (Nov. - Dec., 1987), pp. 73-81+84-95+98-111+114-127+130-144 (64 pages) ...

“Paulina, the gardener’s daughter, cares / about flowers doomed to die,” begins Tadeusz Dąbrowski’s poem “Bouquet” (translated, from the Polish, by Antonia Lloyd-Jones). In this brief, poignant lyric, ...

Poet Amanda Gorman has released a new work, just in time for the year’s end. And like her most famous poem, “The Hill We Climb,” her latest aims to uplift its listeners during a challenging time.

On a recent Friday afternoon, I joined Joe Hoover, S.J., our poetry editor, and James Davis May, the winner of last year’s contest, in a spirited debate to choose the winning poem for the 2025 Foley ...

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Poet, novelist, critic, and professor Mark Van Doren (1894–1972) numbered among his Columbia University students such literary figures as John Berryman and Thomas Merton. An advocate for liberal ...

Poet Amanda Gorman reflected on 2021 and looked ahead to next year in a new poem — and accompanying performance — shared on Instagram. “New Day’s Lyric” begins with a call for unity as Gorman ...

As self-proclaimed president and vocal advocate for the “I Hate Poetry Club,” I wasn’t entirely sure why I was hunched over a computer in the Fishbowl, mumbling 24 lines of impassioned Shakespeare to ...