The New Yorker's famously rigorous fact-checking began with an angry letter from a protective Maine mother. The magazine was just two years old in 1927 when it published a profile of the Rockland-born ...

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 ...

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. It ...

Nearly 38 years after Professor Frank D'Souza, the first head of the department of English at Siddharth College, Mumbai, left a manuscript on 'lyric poetry', his daughter Dr Daphne D'Souza Pillai ...

You can usually stir up debate by comparing song lyrics to poetry. As a publication that highlights the exploits of songwriters, we believe that writing a song presents a unique set of challenges ...

His book Lyric Poetry takes you through a journey of understanding the strength and lyricism that can be achieved with the written word without music, along with the importance and beauty of this ...

How memorizing poetry can expand your life I was always a reluctant reader of poetry, but memorizing a poem every week gave me a new understanding of myself.

Installation view of Shanzhai Lyric, Incomplete Poem (2015–ongoing) Lin and Tatarsky joined forces in 2015, when their research expertise merged.

“Lyric poetry in the Western tradition was called lyric poetry because at one point it was performed with a lyre,” explained poet Charif Shanahan, who teaches at Northwestern and just received ...

As convenor of the Franke Lecture series this fall, Ayesha Ramachandran is inviting audiences to dive into lyric poetry — across time, cultures, and languages.