The New York Times

James Oppenheim, Poet, Extols the Lyre; Declares Poetry Is Not on the Wane -- Other Communications.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
Salon

Camille Paglia’s history of music: The politics and poetry of Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye and hip-hop

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 ...
Boston Review

Review: Radiant Lyre

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 ...
NPR

In 'Words with Wings and Magic Things,' poetry is beautifully illustrated — and fun!

Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati met on a blind date. "We share the same agent," explains Burgess. "She said, 'You need to meet this client of mine.'" Over coffee in Brooklyn, they discovered that they ...
NPR

Honoring The Games, And The Past, With Poetry

In the days of the ancient Greeks, poetry and sport went hand in hand at athletic festivals like the Olympics. Poets sang the praises of athletic champions and, at some festivals, even competed in ...