Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

The lyric can be an elusive form / of self-reflection,” writes Šime Knežević in his first full-length collection of poetry, ...

We share 5 top tips to help you take your poetry to the next level, with advice from award-winning poet and UAL Short Courses ...

“In [Erica] Reid’s Ghost Man on Second, the real ghost man floating through the pages is the sonnet.” I n listing the ...

Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.

By this time, Michael had already established his own personal, lyric style and was wary of writing about an obviously sectarian conflict. Nonetheless, in several poems he spoke out directly ...

While performing their 2004 hit “American Idiot” at the Calabash South Africa festival in Johannesburg on Jan. 19, the rock band’s frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, swapped the lyric “I’m not a part of ...

Then he folds them, in the form of words, around a line break, kind of like how they are wrapped around his head. The poem concentrates on tactile, concrete details: the child’s coat ...

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 ...

In the introduction to Asantewaa Boykin, RN’s new book of poems, Love, Lyric, and Liberation (Nomadic Press), Cat Brooks, the longtime community activist who co ...

Lyric Li is a Washington Post researcher/reporter focused on culture and social affairs in Asia, especially China and Taiwan. He joined the Post in 2018 as a researcher for the Beijing bureau and ...