The New Lyre

In this first issue of New Lyre, we have endeavored to offer you the finest selection of both previously unpublished and published poetry. In so doing, we hope that you will pleased as you read some of the most striking and enduring examples of timeless poetry from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While many contemporary poetry journals describe themselves as "open" to a wide range of original styles and subject matter, we believe the most enduring poetry is that...
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In this first issue of New Lyre, we have endeavored to offer you the finest selection of both previously unpublished and published poetry. In so doing, we hope that you will pleased as you read some of the most striking and enduring examples of timeless poetry from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
While many contemporary poetry journals describe themselves as "open" to a wide range of original styles and subject matter, we believe the most enduring poetry is that which most successfully imparts its timeless form into the thoughts, feelings and emotions of the human race. In the words of Friedrich Schiller, "The Artist, it is true, is the son of his age; but pity for him if he is its pupil, or even its favorite."
Indeed, we believe that not everything given the title of "poetry" is actually poetry. These include diary entries and prose masquerading as poetry, or verses which tend towards self-referential oblivion, rather than universal expressions of beauty.