BEFORE attempting any delimitation of the frontiers of Music and Poetry, or any discussion of their interaction, it is perhaps prudent to admit that in one respect it is impossible to separate them.

Complaining about poetry is a mug’s game, as Mark Edmundson recently learned after publishing his “Poetry Slam” in the July issue of Harper’s. Like Jeremy Bentham and Thomas Love Peacock in the 19th ...

As for Van Morrison, he begins one lyric found in “Lit Up Inside & Keep ’Er Lit: The Collected Lyrics” with “Rave on, John ...

Every so often, you will hear lamentations about the sorry state of high-brow forms of art, particularly classical music and poetry. These forms of art, we are told, are dying. They are dying from ...

People say that poetry has gone out of vogue. I’m not sure if that is true. But it is true – at least by my way of thinking – that the poetry of the 21st century has kind of left me behind like most ...

Comic actor Bill Murray is no stranger to music, though his "Saturday Night Live" character of a boisterous lounge singer isn't quite what one discovers when they hear his latest professional gig -- ...

April is National Poetry Month! The website poets.org says, "in this time of uncertainty and great concern, we can rely on poems to offer wisdom, uplifting ideas, and language that prompts reflection ...

As a young conservatory student in 1993, I was talking with a classmate. He told me that his teacher, a prominent trumpet player in the New York Philharmonic, would begin each weekly lesson by having ...