Georgia Douglas Johnson studied music in a conservatory with dreams of being a composer, but it was ultimately poetry that ...

Randle Chowning, founder of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, writes about songs that tell a story and shares one based on a ...

Not many modern verses are so finely wrought, so ruthlessly precise in every facet of meaning and music ... This poem is about Aunt Jennifer’s constrained life and eventual death, but it ...

“But I’m aware that for great pop songwriters there’s always some mediation between life experience and the craft of the finished work. With song-poem music there is no such mediatio ...

Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has young poets competing for prizes from $100 to $1,000 at this year’s ...