Long before Jessie Reyez was celebrated for her voice, poetry was the Toronto-bred musician's “first love.” The Grammy-nominated and Juno Award winner’s music often feels like spoken poetry, backed by ...

Blue Fasa, the latest book by Duke University Creative Writing Professor Nathaniel Mackey, is a lyrical voyage through an epic love story. Yet this epic is but a fragment of an even vaster one, “Song ...

You can assign any sort of “indie rock” classification to Dehd and you’d probably be right. Jason Balla’s guitar rides the reverberated wave of surf rock; bassist and vocalist Emily Kempf applies both ...

April is National Poetry Month! The website poets.org says, "in this time of uncertainty and great concern, we can rely on poems to offer wisdom, uplifting ideas, and language that prompts reflection ...

Complaining about poetry is a mug’s game, as Mark Edmundson recently learned after publishing his “Poetry Slam” in the July issue of Harper’s. Like Jeremy Bentham and Thomas Love Peacock in the 19th ...

As they learn how writers revise their work and use literary devices, the students gear up for a school assembly led by Australian rap star Nelson Dialect When superstar Taylor Swift writes a song, ...

To her early 20th-century audience, Tsilye Dropkin’s Yiddish poetry was as shocking for its content as its form. A Russian-born poet who immigrated to New York City at the age of 25, Dropkin broke ...

When the northern lights dramatically lit up skies across the country earlier this month, poet Silas House was among those of us dazzled from below.

When Johnny Cash died almost 15 years ago, he left behind a treasure trove of unpublished poems and handwritten letters. The new album Johnny Cash: Forever Words, out now, immortalizes those words in ...