Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

Had Oliver Wendell Holmes not felt the patriotic pride that led to his writing of this inspiring poem, the USS Constitution ...

The late great Jeff Buckley is one of those rare songwriters who can perfectly blend singing ability with songwriting and composition that just feels like poetry. He’s a legend, and that’s ...

The type of poetry I really liked had lyrics that have lots of structure and grand concepts and use language in very new and interesting ways. The affinity for scanning a sonnet or identifying ...

Poems of Parenting by Loryn Brantz (Apr. 8, $19.99, ISBN 978-0-06-342643-6). Based on a series of Instagram posts, this illustrated collection tracks the ups and downs of parenthood.

There have been many examples throughout the history of contemporary music where the artist has gone beyond the call of duty and delivered more than just simple placeholder lyrics and gifted the world ...

Installation view of Shanzhai Lyric, Incomplete Poem (2015–ongoing) Lin and Tatarsky joined forces in 2015, when their research expertise merged.

“This relationship feels like … a burning bridge,” is Atkins's example. You can stick to a single line or make it an extended metaphor with an entire poem about that bridge.

Motivated by stories told to me in the 1970s and 1980s by pioneer residents of Miami’s Colored Town, now known as Overtown, I saved the historic Lyric Theater from destruction as an example of ...

Uncovered an unpublished poem by Eugenio Montale with an environmentalist theme: it is a lyric against Hotel Fuenti, one of the most infamous ecomonsters in Italian history. Author of the discovery is ...

In a late, gorgeous poem titled “A Children’s Story,” a king, a queen, and a bunch of little princesses are “tired of rural life” and have decided to return to the city, to society.