Escaping the Brave New World Part I: Fleeing Huxley's Island
In this first episode, poets David Gosselin and Adam Sedia discuss the nature of tragedy and explore the subtleties of escaping a today's...
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By Drew Keane
- Apr 15, 2021
- 1 min
Someday, Not Too Long from Now
When someday, not too long from now, the world Is buried under webs of roads unfurled, With layer stacked on layer to the skies — A...
By Caitlin Johnstone
- Apr 11, 2021
- 2 min
Aspire to Greatness (The Real Kind)
Aspire to greatness, but not the kind they teach you about in school. Not the kind where you can all be astronauts and presidents when...
By Daniel Leach
- Mar 28, 2021
- 2 min
Dream Time
The clock is ticking in the pallid rays Of ghost-like morning hour’s waning moonlight, And though it orders all my waking days, It has no...
By Adam Sedia
- Mar 22, 2021
- 1 min
The Gift of Lilies
If angels plucked up blossoms In endless, light-drowned skies, With curved sextuple petals Glowing radiant white, Pearlescent in noon’s...
The Editors
- Mar 21, 2021
- 1 min
World Poetry Day Podcast
Robert Frost once said, "A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom." We could not agree more. In this World Poetry Day podcast, New...
By Michael R. Burch
- Mar 14, 2021
- 1 min
Will There Be Starlight?
Will there be starlight tonight while she gathers damask and lilac and sweet-scented heathers? And will she find flowers, or will she...
By Jack Dempster
- Mar 7, 2021
- 2 min
Autumn Ballad
I. Leaves of crispy gold and red drift softly from the sky, falling down to the frozen ground without a sound, to shrivel up and die –...
The Editors
- Mar 1, 2021
- 1 min
Modernism, Eugenics, and the Revolt of the Masses
Modernism has many secrets—some might even call it a dark side. This dark side involves a stunningly elitist philosophy, a pro-imperial...
The Editors
- Feb 22, 2021
- 1 min
200 Years Later: Mapping Keats's Progress with Dr. Kim Blank
Professor Kim Blank, author of Mapping Keats's Progress, joins the New Lyre Podcast to discuss the astounding poetic development of John...
By Gleb Zavlanov
- Feb 22, 2021
- 1 min
Barbarous Captivity & Truth Seekers
Barbarous Captivity The stone confines the angel’s shape; It grips her hands with awful might; It clutches at her supple nape And hinders...
By Terry Norton
- Feb 15, 2021
- 2 min
The Monkeys and the Moon
(adapted from a Tibetan folktale) In times long-past, there lived a band Of monkeys in a forestland, And as they rambled roundabout, They...
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