As this year’s instructor of the Franke Seminar in the Humanities, and convenor of the accompanying Franke Lecture series, Ramachandran is inviting her audience to take a similar deep dive, but this ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Even a thin membrane between the author and his proxy on the page can be permission-giving, but in the arena of lyric poetry, questions of voice and speaker, and their authenticity, are often ...

Be on the lookout for Gorman’s upcoming books The Hill We Climb: Poems and Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem. “In This Place (An American Lyric) ” is the poem that piqued Dr. Jill Biden ...

Lorna Crozier’s The Wrong Cat is classic Crozier: lyric poems that often focus on love and nature. The book has four parts, each beginning with a cat poem. The first one sets the tone ...

Jon Stone is an editor at Sidekick Books. Poetry isn’t a medium typically associated with towering beasts. Lyric poems tend to be short, tender and concerned with minor everyday incidents.