BEFORE attempting any delimitation of the frontiers of Music and Poetry, or any discussion of their interaction, it is perhaps prudent to admit that in one respect it is impossible to separate them.

As a young conservatory student in 1993, I was talking with a classmate. He told me that his teacher, a prominent trumpet player in the New York Philharmonic, would begin each weekly lesson by having ...

April is National Poetry Month! The website poets.org says, "in this time of uncertainty and great concern, we can rely on poems to offer wisdom, uplifting ideas, and language that prompts reflection ...

Every so often, you will hear lamentations about the sorry state of high-brow forms of art, particularly classical music and poetry. These forms of art, we are told, are dying. They are dying from ...

Complaining about poetry is a mug’s game, as Mark Edmundson recently learned after publishing his “Poetry Slam” in the July issue of Harper’s. Like Jeremy Bentham and Thomas Love Peacock in the 19th ...

My intention here is to offer a detailed but inevitably incomplete chronology of poetry and jazz. The focus is solely on the combination of the two art forms in performance, not on poetry about jazz ...

There’s something timeless about a cowboy’s story–tales told under starlit skies, woven with humor, grit, and the quiet strength of life on the range. On Wednesday, July 30, the Utah County Fair will ...

Sometimes the most beautiful and memorable form of artistic expression comes at the crossroads of two different disciplines. That’s what violinist Leslee Smucker has found throughout her music career.