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

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 ...

Dana Gioia, poet and critic: “I believe that a poet is, in some sense, involuntary. To a certain degree, a poet is at the mercy of his or her inspiration. A poet needs to cultivate a certain humility ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Are nice people really left with the soggy end of the sandwich? Jimmy Stewart probably thought so, ...

Figuring out what to do with the 'Song of Songs' has preoccupied people reading the Bible for centuries. 'Song of Songs' illustrated by Florence Kingsford/Southern Methodist University/Wikimedia ...