Thirty years ago, during my second year of teaching humanities at the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts (1985-86), I created an elective two-semester course called “Lyric” that began with ...

Orpheus, the son of god of music Apollo and muse Calliope, was the greatest bard, mystic, and prophet in ancient Greek ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Radiant Lyre, which the editors dub “a comprehensive seminar on the lyric,” aims to gather several poets’ own responses to lyric forms and methods, as well as to pose questions poets and readers might ...

This collection of 25 essays by seven prominent poet-scholars-incluidng the editors, Stanley Plumly, Linda Gregerson and Carl Phillips-grew out of a panel at the 2000 Associated Writing Programs ...

HE is a belated figure of the Renaissance. For the like of his many-sided genius we must go upstream to Leonardo da Vinci, to Michelangelo, and on back to Aristotle. Our almost complete loss of ...

This summer, on a lark, I took a course on poetry geared toward Christian leaders. Twelve of us met over Zoom to read poems and discuss the intersection of our faith, vocations and poetry. We compared ...

Artists and poets have long been inspired by the mathematical patterns found in nature—for instance, the remarkable fact that a sunflower's seeds follow the Fibonacci sequence. But there are myriad ...

April is National Poetry Month—perhaps a good time to review the positive aspects of reading and writing poems. Poetry is a genre of writing in which succinct, vivid, and intense language is given to ...

My guest today on Poetry from Daily Life is Ken Slesarik, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Ken became a writer 17 years ago and after the loss of his son began to focus on grief and loss poetry. Two ...

Since lockdown, everyone has had to rely heavily on digital technologies: be it Zoom work meetings and lengthy email chains, gaming and streaming services for entertainment, or social media platforms ...