This poem is the war on a very plain level. but this poem can’t barber its own hook clean. It twists in the shrapnel breeze of my credibility. It is made above all of words disarranged to resemble an ...

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Figuring out what to do with the 'Song of Songs' has preoccupied people reading the Bible for centuries. 'Song of Songs' ...

Walt Whitman wrote one of his most famous poems, Song of Myself, in 1855, but according to former United States poet laureate Robert Hass, it wasn't until much later that the poem acquired the name by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though Julie Andrews' practically perfect singing voice was irreparably damaged in 1997 when she underwent botched throat surgery, the actress's innate musicality is irrepressible. Her new book, Julie ...