Bone Music by Stephen Cramer, Trio House Press, 106 pages. $16. If there were a CliffsNotes version, or a summative tweet, for Stephen Cramer‘s new poetry book Bone Music, it might be the last line of ...

Words and music will blend in a 'magical and mesmerising' performance at Proteus.

Longtime Johnny Cash fans are about to get some very special new music. A forthcoming project, Johnny Cash Forever Words: The Music, sets the poems of Cash to music. "John Carter has a good number of ...

There is a particular way Matthew McConaughey speaks when he is circling an idea he does not want to let go of. The sentences roll, stop, double back. A word, "belief," becomes a refrain, a drumbeat.

Twenty years ago, Eric Isaacson founded Mississippi Records, a record store and label based in North Portland. Since its inception, it’s specialized in sharing music outside of the mainstream. ”We’re ...

A poem about the innocence of Black children, and the need to protect it, is the inspiration for a new piece of music, which got its premiere with the Philadelphia Orchestra this week. The poem by ...

Billy Collins believes in the beauty of short poems. He says they show how poetry can squeeze a lot of meaning into tight spaces. His new collection of short poems is called "Musical Tables," and ...

Hayes, a professor of writing at the University of Pittsburgh, was recognized for "reflecting on race, gender, and family in works that seamlessly... MacArthur Fellow Terrance Hayes: Poems Are Music, ...

Eavan Boland was one of Ireland’s most beloved writers. She died on April 27, 2020, suddenly of a stroke. Boland had just returned from her long-time teaching position at Stanford University in ...