As convenor of the Franke Lecture series this fall, Ayesha Ramachandran is inviting audiences to dive into lyric poetry — across time, cultures, and languages. By Lisa Prevost. September 19, 2023.

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 ...

Poetry has a romantic aura to it, whereas lyric writing seems rather plebeian (to borrow a word from "Cry Me a River"). Writing lyrics doesn't have the cachet writing poetry has. It isn't as cool. And ...

Glück has died at 80 years old. When she won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2020, she became the first U.S. poet to be awarded in 70 years.

The opening line (I light a candle to our love) came when he happened upon a book of poetry by Radindranath Tagore. Macca paraphrased a similar line from Tagore to start off “Pipes of Peace.” ...

Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy: The life and works of Leonora Bernardi, 2023, pp. 388-483 (96 pages) ... 3 Bernardi’s lyric verse and its musical settings (pp. 388-483) Virginia Cox ...