—If the best French lyric poetry of modern days has indisputably a charm of refinement and delicate beauty all its own, the best of the German has an inveterate earnestness and a depth of ...

As convenor of the Franke Lecture series this fall, Ayesha Ramachandran is inviting audiences to dive into lyric poetry — across time, cultures, and languages. ... Ayesha Ramachandran and a poem in ...

Sandwiched between epic poetry and the birth of philosophy and history, Greek lyric poetry is an unduly neglected literary repository in the Western canon. It's time to change this. Here is an ...

Take the poem “Qualm,” from A SYMMETRY (Norton, 97 pp., $26.95), by Ari Banias:. Patience. Rage and being told “be patient.” The birds with orange heads and dust-colored bodies bob on the ...

In 2022, The New Yorker published poetry by long-cherished writers, including Charles Simic, Henri Cole, Sandra Cisneros, Jorie Graham, Rae Armantrout, and Joyce Carol Oates, and by several first ...

One thing bursts out of another. Christine Brooke-Rose, in A Grammar of Metaphor (1958), called it the genitive link. When Ballarat regional poet Nathan Curnow begins his poem The Lighthouse with ...

Poetry and song were once the same: The first poems were recited to music played on the lyre. (It's the source of the word "lyric.") Today, poems are published in books and journals, while songs ...

This poem is a manifesto, an ars poetica, a recipe for a poem. Its elements: family, time, place. And something else: “not one of us does not avert his eyes.” ...

Do Taylor Swift’s lyrics stand up as poetry? We invited three Toronto poets to weigh in on her new album It’s a “The Tortured Poets Department” listening party for actual poets.