Border's Sandese Aate Hain fetched Javed Akhtar his second National Film Award for lyrics. The nine-minute song was inspied ...

Kim Yeong-nang (1903-50) left behind just 86 poems, written over the course of his 47-year life before it was cut short at ...

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Years before the Broadway hit "Waitress," Sara Bareilles was an actual server who relied on teamwork. Those collaboration ...

Are song lyrics the same as poems? The members of the Swedish Academy think they are and said as much in 2016 when they awarded the Nobel Prize in literature to Bob Dylan, recognizing him “for having ...

For centuries, the Iliad and Odyssey were more than literature to the Greeks: they were formative texts, the stories through which young minds learned what it meant to be human, to be heroic, to be ...

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Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (23 June [O.S. 11 June] 1889 – 5 March 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova,was one of the most significant Russian poets of the 20th century. She was shortlisted ...

John Denver was a well-loved American singer and songwriter, born in 1943. He became famous in the 1970s for his warm voice and songs that celebrated nature, love, and everyday happiness. Some of his ...

Johnny Cash is indisputably one of the greatest songwriters of all time. In five decades of recording and performance, the Man in Black crafted countless unforgettable anthems that profoundly shaped ...

Atlanta is home to some of the most accomplished and celebrated poets in the country. In the past few years, local poets have showered us with an embarrassment of riches. To celebrate National Poetry ...