Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in literature last year, renewing an old debate: Are pop lyrics poetry? (Lex Van Lieshout/European Pressphoto Agency) Michael Lindgren is a frequent contributor to The ...

Dr. Arnold Benjamin Udoka, is a Commonwealth scholar and choreographer. A poet, playwright and dancer, in this chat with Edozie Udeze he shares his views on the development of poetry in the society, ...

Songwriters have a natural gift for the spoken and sung word. It’s no surprise that legendary songwriters like Leonard Cohen had backgrounds in poetry and authorship. That being said, many songwriters ...

Are song lyrics the same as poems? The members of the Swedish Academy think they are and said as much in 2016 when they awarded the Nobel Prize in literature to Bob Dylan, recognizing him “for having ...

The boomer bard with a guitar who sent out a clarion call that the words pop singers sang were worthy of being taken seriously was awarded the highest honor for a writer. Bob Dylan is the songwriter ...

Lyrics are often compared to poetry. Are they a form of "the poetic art?" Are they less "artistic?" Poetry has a romantic aura to it, whereas lyric writing seems rather plebeian (to borrow a word from ...

Circa 1985, a pretentious young teenager in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I painstakingly typed out, on a typewriter, the lyrics to a song by an obscure English punk band—“Outdoor Miner,” from Wire’s 1978 ...

These are some of our favorites from among more than 800 submissions in response to our request for variations on traditional letters. Elections of Yore (to the tune of “Yesterday”) Yesterday, ...