How would you like to have a poem written especially for you (or an original song or story as a tribute for a friend or family member) and help out Festival of Words in the process? The festival's ...

The 31st Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering was held last month in Alpine on the campus of Sul Ross State University. Preserving the proud tradition of the American West in words and music is its purpose.

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 ...

"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 ...

Recall seeing those "songs-poems" ads in the back pages of supermarket tabloids? Ever wonder about the quality of material submitted, and for a fee, then recorded? If so, look no further than this… By ...

Join George Mason University’s Mason Speaker Series for a talk on a famous literary Native American hero! Most of us know ...

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 ...

(The Conversation) — The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love between the divine and his people. (The Conversation) ...

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 ...