In the spirit of celebrating the arts in its myriad forms, here are four songs you may not have known were adapted from poems ...

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 ...

Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in literature last year, renewing an old debate: Are pop lyrics poetry? (Lex Van Lieshout/European Pressphoto Agency) Michael Lindgren is a frequent contributor to The ...

Whether it’s a specific line from a poem, or an entire piece set to a melody, poetry has long been an inspiration for musical artists. The rock genre in particular seems to stray towards poetry on ...

Luke Savage - Author, The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History Song-sharking companies sometimes began by offering free consultations for everyday poets—as in ...

The Texan artist revives the old-time western song on this appealing and historically minded album of vintage verse set to ...

"America's largest song studio wants to see your material," went the come-on for one of the many tiny ads run by the song-poem industry, a shady corner of the music business in operation since the ...

In honor of Father's Day, this segment of A Celtic Sojourn is dedicated to the fathers' theme and relationships with family. In many of these songs and poems, the relationship referenced is between a ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died Feb. 22 at age 101, wrote a string of verses called "What is Poetry." We remember him by excerpting some lines. Lawrence Ferlinghetti died this week. He was 101 and one ...