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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kelsea Ballerini briefly broke up with music. The country singer's third album kelsea was released just as the world went into lockdown in March 2020, preventing her from touring and sharing her new ...

New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that "stressed poetry," the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was already in use in the 2nd Century CE, 300 years earlier ...

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 ...

The contemporary dawning of Hebrew song can be traced to the last decades of the nineteenth century, when Jewish poets in Europe began to write Hebrew poetry. However, with new Hebrew educational ...