New Lyre Podcast #32: Enchanting Forms with Poet Sarah Ashbach

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New Lyre Podcast #32: Enchanting Forms with Poet Sarah Ashbach

Exploring the clear, the occult and the beautiful

David Gosselin

Dec 08, 2024

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In this latest episode, we talk with the 2024 Frost Farm Poetry Prize winner, Sarah Ashbach. From poetry’s religious enchantment and the gnostic, occult elements in modern verse to teaching poetry to high school students, join us for an enchanting journey with the young and talented Mrs. Ashbach.

Read Sarah’s poem “In the Time of the Latter Rain” below.

In the Time of the Latter Rain

David Gosselin

December 8, 2024

Black cows lounge on the hills and gaze toward dusk;

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Our Fall Magazine Is Published!

David Gosselin

October 16, 2024

Download or order the latest issue of our print journal, New Lyre Magazine

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Yeats and the Occult

David Gosselin

April 26, 2024

Modernism often produces obscure poetry because it denies the existence of absolute truth. Without a fundamental truth to reveal, poetry is relegated to presenting a series of images for the reader to supply the meaning of the text. Hart Crane and the pioneers of modernist poetry achieved this with words alone, but later Cummings and the “concrete” poets, heavily under the influence of cubism and modernist movements in visual art, did so through typographical forms of the poem itself.

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