The 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, inspired poet Amanda Gorman to pen "Hymn for the Hurting." Now it's a song set to ...

The ghazal is a formal poem that has roots in seventh-century Arabia and was often sung by musicians. The poet Agha Shahid Ali introduced the form to America. “Ghazal” literally means “the cry of a ...

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, as well as National Poetry Month. This week's Take Five celebrates both art forms in the same place. Each of the five songs featured here was originally written as a ...

A weird nexus between amateur aspiration and journeyman musicianship is examined in "Off the Charts," Jamie Meltzer's delightful look at the decades-old, subterranean "song-poem" industry. A weird ...

Famous poets (tortured or not) have taken inspiration from Swift’s music. Can you match the poem to the song? By Jennifer Harlan Taylor Swift is many things: a pop superstar, a business mogul, a cat ...