Leontia Flynn is one of the best poets of her generation, despite being less widely known than many of the generation she ...

John J. Ruppert is full of poems, some of which he imagines might make great song lyrics if he could find a person with that ...

The contemporary dawning of Hebrew song can be traced to the last decades of the nineteenth century, when Jewish poets in Europe began to write Hebrew poetry. However, with new Hebrew educational ...

Over 20 years after the death of George Harrison, his widow Olivia Harrison will publish a book of poems dedicated to the late Beatles legend. Came the Lightening, a collection of 20 poems Olivia ...

Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. When the Irish poet died suddenly in 2013, at age 74, a benign literary presence was robbed from us. The posthumous publication of his ...

November of 2016 saw the arrival of “Forever Words: The Unknown Poems,” a posthumous collection of unpublished poetry written by Johnny Cash, the first person ever to be inducted into both the country ...

The ghazal is a formal poem that has roots in seventh-century Arabia and was often sung by musicians. The poet Agha Shahid Ali introduced the form to America. “Ghazal” literally means “the cry of a ...

The pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance wrote about race, love, ordinary Americans and relatable struggles. These phenomenal Langston Hughes poems are the perfect introduction to his impressive body of ...

Jamming out to good music is a great time, but sometimes you just want to curl up with a good book. You can have the best of both worlds though —there are rock star book worms among us, and they've ...

One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that some of my students, past and present, ...