Over six decades after she first hit the scene, Judy Collins remains one of the most iconic artists of the '60s folk movement ...

China’s first poem-opera, The Hegemon’s Farewell: Xiang Yu and His Beauty Yu , after its premiere on May 8 in Xi’an, China, ...

Efforts to ban books in schools and remove them from libraries usually happen at the local level. Trump has made them a focus ...

On a recent Friday afternoon, I joined Joe Hoover, S.J., our poetry editor, and James Davis May, the winner of last year’s contest, in a spirited debate to choose the winning poem for the 2025 ...

Take, for example, “Wreck Of The Hesperus”, which borrowed its title from a Longfellow poem and found Harrison musing, in self-deprecating fashion, about getting long in the tooth. We are now ...

Students were asked to create an original lyric poem consisting of four stanzas of four lines each. The winning entry at each grade level could win a cash award, and if the poem was written in cursive ...

Maybe you’d be interested to learn about poets who have written in response to one another and why—or maybe you’d enjoy checking out a form that is new to you, like the prose poem or lyric essay.

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.

Ascending to fame at a time when Anglo-American poetry was growing increasingly difficult and obscure, Frost set himself apart. A lyric poet inspired by Longfellow, he described the hard lives of ...

Write an ode to misfits. A poem of praise for those who don’t belong here or there. A lyric ballad for the children of nowhere. Employ the interjection Oh at some point in the poem. Remember it ...

They are English-language translations of the poem that isn’t quite a poem (being ... one I’m immensely grateful for. Listen to the Lyric Feature: Lament for Art O’Leary on RTÉ lyric ...