Eric Clapton's first real attempt at songwriting needed some lyrics. A poet came through with the words of "Tales Of Brave ...

Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

In her arresting debut, How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 135 pages, $22), Tea Gerbeza uses visual and lyric techniques in a long poem that, while it centres her experience with scoliosis and ...

It’s no surprise that legendary songwriters like Leonard Cohen had backgrounds in poetry and authorship ... is one of the best examples of his poetic nature. This folk record feels like a ...

Complete with one of his finest opening verses in history; his poetry is in full Byronian swing ... “You can get hung up on just two words of a Dylan lyric. ‘Jealous monk‘ or ‘magic swirling ship‘ are ...

Her book explores everything from the lyric poetry of John Donne to the ... that will be familiar to many Seattleites. For example, a poem in the “Atmospheric River, Songbird Salmonella Die ...

In The High Window, for example, the memory of ... mature self-questioning that lifts these poems beyond the currency of the quotidian into a knottier lyric intensity, as in the lines, “I ...

Its name commemorates Joyce Kilmer—a Philolexian alum and romantic poet of the early 20th century—and his infamously simple and sentimental 1913 lyric poem “Trees.” The contest fosters a space for ...

Given the literary and poetic qualities of Bob Dylan’s lyrics, the translator, from the perspective of translation aesthetics, utilizes Xu Yuanchong’s renowned “Three Beauties Theory” in appreciating ...

Founded by born-and-raised New Yorkers Ming Lin and Alexandra Tatarsky, Shanzhai Lyric is based on the concept ... TikTok is a prime example: It is, depending on who you ask, either a ...