Because I use pop lyrics in my poems and review records for SPIN and elsewhere, people sometimes ask me whether I think of song lyrics as poetry. Looked at in certain ways, they obviously are; in ...

And I think there are a lot of connections like that between poetry and music and various literary movements and the lyrics of today and the lyrics of the last 50 years where rock'n'roll opens up ...

During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...

Dr. Arnold Benjamin Udoka, is a Commonwealth scholar and choreographer. A poet, playwright and dancer, in this chat with Edozie Udeze he shares his views on the development of poetry in the society, ...

The poet Andrew Weatherhead once tweeted, “The best way to read a poem is to pretend each line is the name of a horse; so the poem is just a list of horses.” This joke says something serious about ...

—If the best French lyric poetry of modern days has indisputably a charm of refinement and delicate beauty all its own, the best of the German has an inveterate earnestness and a depth of feeling that ...