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.

Every Thursday this year we're celebrating All Songs Considered's 15th birthday with personal memories and highlights from the show's decade and a half online and on the air. If you have a story about ...

In verse 8 of her lengthy poem “Dark Testament,” Pauli Murray captures the essence of a hope that refuses to be silenced, a hope that persists even in the face of adversity: Hope is a song in a weary ...

As the Lizard King, Jim Morrison became more well-known for his serpentine behavior on and off-stage with The Doors, but what was often eclipsed, particularly towards the end of his brief life, was ...

While enduring daily cruelty and deprivation in labor camps in central Ukraine, survivor Liubov N. and her fellow prisoners documented their struggle in song and verse. Recounting her experiences in a ...

After reading through the exuberant poems in Barbara Crooker’s ninth book, I began to look at the world with different eyes. I found small, seemingly ordinary things to praise and felt myself ...

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 ...

In the same way one technological age feeds the advances that follow, art inspires art even across disparate mediums; it's not often creators knowingly glimpse the effect of their art. “It was surreal ...