Sometimes you want music, sometimes you want lyrics. These are three classic rock songs from the 1950s that are more like poetry.

Robert Hass, the former poet laureate of the United States, explores one of Walt Whitman's most iconic poems, Song of Myself — and shares his... Robert Hass: On Whitman's 'Song Of Myself' Robert Hass: ...

Annette Hope Billings and Dr. Jennifer J. Gordon performed MotherSong: a Poem Play by Daughters.

"Just last week, I was lucky enough to be one of the singer-songwriters chosen by John Carter Cash to get one of the Johnny Cash poems that hadn't been turned into a song yet and turn it into a song,” ...

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Subscribe to The New Criterion’s podcast series via Apple or Google. This episode begins with a shout—“a shout of joy on the organ,” Jay says. It also has a poem, written and recited by Langston ...

November of 2016 saw the arrival of “Forever Words: The Unknown Poems,” a posthumous collection of unpublished poetry written by Johnny Cash, the first person ever to be inducted into both the country ...

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 ...