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 ...

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 ...

Jacqueline Germany blends poetry, lyrics, and raw life experiences into a vibrant collection exploring love, identity, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Figuring out what to do with the 'Song of Songs' has preoccupied people reading the Bible for centuries. 'Song of Songs' ...

a hole in a uniform, patching a tire, repairing the things in need of repair. Someone is trying to make music somewhere, with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum, with cello, boom box, harmonica, ...

A poem springing from contradictions or opposites can be satisfying in its succinctness. The haunted mixtures of Jacqueline Saphra’s “Songs and Stones” feel familiar as cadences of the everyday, yet ...