“But we read novels, we read blogs, we read magazines.” As this year’s instructor of the Franke Seminar in the Humanities, and convenor of the accompanying Franke Lecture series, Ramachandran is ...

There has to be a system of coherence to the poem — even a list of random horses has coherence, via theme — but it can’t be unsurprising either. A series of lyric decisions is how we write ...

Discusses Greek lyric poetry, focusing on its emotional depth and the techniques used by poets like Cicus and Sappho to convey complex feelings through word harmony, rhythm, and vivid imagery.

Gorman, the 23-year-old who recited the aforementioned poem at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, partnered with Instagram on her new composition, “New Day’s Lyric.” She said she wrote ...

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 feeling ...

The greater includes the less. The second reason concerns the Poet as Man. Of all poetry, the lyric is the most personal. Through it the poet utters, without feigning or restraint, his subjective ...

Three. Both César Vallejo and M. NourbeSe Philip compose poetry according to formal concepts or constraints, and yet strongly communicate affect. The “lyric I” in Vallejo’s tradition-shattering verse ...

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at 6 pm on RTÉ lyric fm, Olivia O'Leary presents Ellen's Walk, exploring the story of a poet, a poem and a long-forgotten walk. Below, Olivia O'Leary tells the story behind Ellen's Walk ...

Like Sean O’Brien’s highly useful The Deregulated Muse, to which Sampson pays homage, Beyond the Lyric celebrates the diversity of the poetry world, while identifying some as more like heirs ...