The Cure's music is littered with literary references, and we take a few down from the archives to analyse their poetic ...

How would you like to have a poem written especially for you (or an original song or story as a tribute for a friend or family member) and help out Festival of Words in the process? The festival's ...

The 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, inspired poet Amanda Gorman to pen "Hymn for the Hurting." Now it's a song set to ...

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 ...

"It's just having the courage to be vulnerable. It's also a revelatory process of writing. It’s self-revealing to a degree." ...

"America's largest song studio wants to see your material," went the come-on for one of the many tiny ads run by the song-poem industry, a shady corner of the music business in operation since the ...

The 31st Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering was held last month in Alpine on the campus of Sul Ross State University. Preserving the proud tradition of the American West in words and music is its purpose.

The poems are a study of human nature, its evolution and devolution, and the complexities that we create by ignoring the simple story of nature.

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 ...

(The Conversation) — The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love between the divine and his people. (The Conversation) ...