June is here, Silver Streak readers! We have a week of profile interviews and historic commemoration over at this edition of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Derrida, this is no accident. He argues that lyric poetry, by nature, asks to be learned by heart, but also, “I call a poem that very thing that teaches the heart, invents the heart ...