New poetry: Alia Kobuszko; John F Deane; Ruth Carr; and Tom Paulin’s razor-sharp return

Dream Latitudes is experimental in the best way; not showy or esoteric for the sake of it. Instead, this book creates the ...

Poem of the week: Renegade by Lionel Johnson

A faultless lyric from 1887 mourns what seems to be repressed gay love ...
American Songwriter

The Leonard Cohen Lyric Based on a Poem About a Famous Ancient Roman

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 and ...
WPXI

Amanda Gorman writes poem, ‘New Day’s Lyric,’ to mark end of 2021

NEW YORK — Amanda Gorman, whose poem at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in January made her an international sensation, is ending 2021 on an inspiring note with a new work. “New Day’s Lyric” is a ...
WDRB

WDRB Mornings' Lyrical Poetry game turns popular songs into poems

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Take away the music and the melody of a song and you are left with just the words. WDRB's Keith Kaiser orchestrates a game of Lyrical Poetry. Each of the WDRB Mornings crew ...
The Atlantic

Dante as Lyric Poet

WE have been so long accustomed to think of Dante chiefly as the poet of The Divine Comedy, and of Shakespeare chiefly as the dramatist of the Plays, that we do not always remember that they are also ...
The Nation

Ben Lerner, Personal Poet

In his first collection of verse in over a decade, he applies the lessons of his successful, self-conscious prose. The Poor Poet, a painting by Carl Spitzweg (1808–1885). Who is Ben Lerner? Readers of ...
The Nation Newspaper

Corruption, Nigeria’s lyrical poem

SIR: Something, we all cannot deny, is the fact that corruption has become a widely recited lyrical poem. To a large extent, it also has shaped the narrative of the Nigerian state, albeit, negatively.
WHDH

Amanda Gorman writes end-of-year poem, ‘New Day’s Lyric’

NEW YORK (AP) — Amanda Gorman is ending her extraordinary year on a hopeful note. The 23-year-old poet, whose reading of her own “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration made her an ...