The Bulwark23h
The Poetry of Bombs and Trenches and Mustard Gas
Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...
The Daily Northwestern1d
Poet Claudia Rankine discusses inspirations for unreleased book in poetry reading and Q&A
What an image,” an audience member whispered, looking at a photo displayed behind poet Claudia Rankine — it depicted a couch ...
Merion West5d
The Speech of Herbs: Melissa Kwasny’s “The Cloud Path”
In “The Bitterroot Path,” one watches her move from lyric’s uncontaminated source of wonder in its Romantic roots to ...
WBAL-TV6d
Calling all Baltimore students! The Dream Big Contest with the Lyric Baltimore is on
WBAL-TV is a proud media sponsor of the Dream Big Contest with the Lyric Baltimore, an arts competition for Baltimore-area students. Ebony Evans and Denise Gantt from the Lyric join Jennifer ...
KPBS8d
San Diego Poet Laureate Paola Capó-García says poetry is a 'thriving thing'
San Diego has named Paola Capó-García as its third Poet Laureate since the program began in 2020. A former journalist and ...
American Songwriter14d
The Paul McCartney Lyric Inspired by a Book of Poetry and the Memory of Social Unrest
"Pipes of Peace" was a song that was a big hit in Great Britain for Paul McCartney upon its release in 1983. Once he received the brief for the song, he used some seemingly contradictory inspirations ...
New Statesman16d
The prophet of the new right
The winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize on how poets have responded to the horrors of civil war – and why the peace process is far from over. By Michael Longley Editor’s note: this piece was ...
Rolling Stone18d
Green Day Change ‘American Idiot’ Lyric to Diss Elon Musk
“I’m not a part of the Elon agenda,” Armstrong sang, switching the original lyric: “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.” Armstrong has been known to switch up the lyrics to the ...
The TLS22d
The Great Inevitable
Unbridled is no exaggeration: Vuong is “awestruck and dumbfounded”; Armantrout commands, “If anyone tells you the lyric is dead, give them Peter Gizzi”; according to Notley, these poems constitute the ...
The New York Times22d
The Desperate Housewife Whose Face Launched a Thousand Ships
By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...
The New York Times23d
Masters of Allusion: The Art of Poetic Reference
Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry ...
Jazz24d
What’s Harder to Write, Poetry or Lyrics?
Lyrics are often compared to poetry. Are they a form of "the poetic art?" Are they less "artistic?" Poetry has a romantic aura to it, whereas lyric writing seems rather plebeian (to borrow a word from ...