April is Jazz Appreciation Month, as well as National Poetry Month. This week's Take Five celebrates both art forms in the same place. Each of the five songs featured here was originally written as a ...

Classics never go out of date. A piece of ancient Chinese poetry, which was written about 1,200 years ago, has recently become an online sensation among teenagers, after two young musicians composed a ...

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 ...

The earliest Chinese poetry begins with the Shi Jing, or the Book of Songs, which is sometimes also known as the Book of Odes, a collection of 305 poems of varying length, drawn from all ranks of ...

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 ...

Imagining the poet as a kind of musical instrument is a somewhat dotty thought, but here the conceit resonates with irresistible musicality Life and Song “If life were caught by a clarionet, And a ...

A poem springing from contradictions or opposites can be satisfying in its succinctness. The haunted mixtures of Jacqueline Saphra’s “Songs and Stones” feel familiar as cadences of the everyday, yet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BOSTON (SHNS) – Libraries, schools and cultural organizations around Massachusetts and the country celebrate April as National ...