Songwriters are often praised with the backhanded comment that their lyrics are so great it means they are not mere songwriters, but poets. As if being a songwriter now, in the 21st century, is a ...

In high school, I thought that poetry was a dead genre, both metaphorically and literally. A quick glance at my English classes’ reading lists had me thinking that the only poets were Shakespearean ...

The connection between poetry and jazz music is a delicate one. It has been documented so infrequently, in performance and recordings, that one still conjures the flicker of an image of Jack Kerouac ...