The Chained Muse

By Gleb Zavlanov

Demented Choirs

Beware utopia’s demented choirs. Their melodies, with sweet, seductive splendor, Inflaming Man’s fantastical desires For liberty from...

The Editors

New lyre Podcast 03: From Shakespeare to Huxley (Happiness or High Art)

New Lyre is joined by Adam Sedia for an exploration of today's "brave new world" of art and culture and how it can be transcended through...

By David B. Gosselin

Life

Life is like a waking dream, Ripples on a fading stream, It has laughter, it has crying— A beginning and an ending. It's dear like a...

By James A. Tweedie

Come Darkness & Twilight Idyll

Come, Darkness Come, Darkness, Wrap me in your ebon mantle as a shroud. Freed from wearied weariness may I find peace Lost within the...

The Editors

New Lyre Podcast 02- Timelessness and the Role of Art in the 21st Century

How is a timeless work of classical art created? What does it mean to create a new classic in the 21st century? Poet and critic Adam...

By Dan Jabe

Colosseum Reverie & Other Poetry

Colosseum Reverie She’s ruined, though her shadows dwell, Forever reaching for the light, And crumbling blocks of travertine Still mourn...

By Michael R. Burch

Insurrection & Other Poetry

Insurrection She has become as the night—listening for rumors of dawn—while the dew, glistening, reminds me of her, and the wind,...

By Adam Sedia

Nebula

When my time has come And helium Weighs down on my exhausted core, Spent from shedding light Through the endless night Until the fuel...

By David B. Gosselin

Modern Dreams

The dreams I had have been forgotten now— The dreams I once believed I knew were true— The dreams I know will haunt me every day— The...

By Daniel Leach

Young and Old

Old as the eons that measure the galaxies, As to the unheard music they swirl, Young as the feeling that plays in the heart And the smile...

By Brian Yapko

Jungle Dance

Insects buzzing, feathers flapping, rumbles Of hungry mammal-mouths demanding meat; Decay and sticky leaves, a monkey tumbles Through...

By Cynthia Chung

Why the Poetic Principle is Imperative for Statecraft

Today, perhaps more so than at any time in history, we are experiencing a divide between what is considered to be the “domain” or...