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That Fair Temple on the Hill & Moon Jar

Fireside Chat (06/28/25): The Summer of Mysteries 2025 - Part I

In the Market Place

Three Stages Squared (After Christina Rossetti’s "Three Stages")

The Mission of Moses by Friedrich Schiller

New Lyre - Spring-Summer 2025 (Issue 7)

Fireside Chat: Freedom Through Beauty with Uwe Alschner and Cynthia Chung

New Summer Mixtape Series Launched!

Spring Lilacs

Goethe's "Mailied" (May Song)

The Renaissance Uncensored... Public Presentation Now Available!

Unifying Spirit between East and West: Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766), Italian Renaissance painter in the Forbidden City

Cult of the Dying God

Fireside Chat with A.M. Juster, Sarah Ashbach and Michael Shindler - NLP #42 (06/05/25)

The Sensitive Young Man Question

Rapture and Grief II by Stefan George

From Modernism to Subversion: William Carlos Williams and the Beat Poets

Fireside Chat: The New Sublime and Literature's Monumental Comeback

The Playful Truth: Reflections on Schiller's "To A Young Friend (As He Dedicates Himself to Philosophy)"

Easter: Reflections on the Primal Word

A Fumbled Catch (In defense of Plato)

The Cranes of Ibycus: Schiller, Ibycus and Divine Justice

Looking Down

Literary Fiefdoms & Poetic Futures with Steve Knepper and Johnny Payne

Keats' "Ode on Melancholy": Gothic Angst or Sublime Transcendence?

Poetry Fireside Chat with Adam Sedia and Daniel Leach

Three Sonnets

In God We Trust by Tom Merrill

A Purple, A Great Ox and Other Poems

Fret Not with Michael Shindler - NLP # 39 (21/03/25)

Three Poems by Gabriele D'Annunzio

The Last Man of K---

Von ewiger Liebe (Eternal Love) Set by Brahms

Walking in Galicia

A Renaissance or New Middle Ages?

A Comparison of Goethe and Schiller's Poetry by Heinrich Heine

Romanticism and the Roses of Pieria

The Barbarians

Into the Winter Clad & Other Poems

Why John Keats Is Not a Romantic

Dialogue between Pneon and Spiro

Der Leiermann by Franz Schubert

Warp and Weft

The Beatings Will Continue

New Lyre Podcast #38: Micro-dosing Stardust with Poet Rachel Landrum Crumble

Lady Gaga's Gnostic Revival: Magic and Mystery in the Modern West?

On an Old Man of Verona Who Never Left His Farm

The Proverbs of Confucius by Friedrich Schiller

New Lyre Podcast #37: Reconstructing Greek Tragedies

Eliot's Masks

Maybe Someday

New Lyre Podcast #36: Not 1001 Nights with Professor Kevin Blankinship

Beyond the Lines: “Mont Blanc” by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Egypt, Moses and the Mysteries: Schiller’s “Veiled Image at Sais”

New Lyre Podcast #35: Ambitious Art with Jesse Keith Butler

New Lyre Podcast #34: Contrappostos, Mughals, and the Miracle of Art

Contrapposto

On Time and Eternity: Schiller's “Resignation”

I AM!

Mediterranean Fortunes