—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 ...

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 ...

Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in literature last year, renewing an old debate: Are pop lyrics poetry? (Lex Van Lieshout/European Pressphoto Agency) Michael Lindgren is a frequent contributor to ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Understanding poetry ... Learn how how rhyme scheme and stanza length can be clues to a poem's form. How to draft poetry. Discover how you can draft your own poetry using examples from Wilfred ...