Songwriting and poetry go hand in hand, and these three famous songwriters managed to make their song lyrics sound like poems.

At turns humorous and reflective, Knowlton’s lyric poems make pleasurable use of her observational and inventive skill in vivid, meticulous detail. A 2018 Georgia Author of the Year, Knowlton ...

Books of lyric poems work like museums ... their verse to acknowledge the world’s great unknowns: W.S. Merwin, for example, and the Swedish Nobelist Tomas Tranströmer. Kuusisto, who teaches ...