Music and poetry share a capacity to make their audience feel things. How do they do it? Do the same cognitive mechanisms play a role in both art forms? Omigie (2015) hypothesizes that empathy with an ...

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 ...

World Music Day Poems 2025: World Music Day, also known as Fête de la Musique, is celebrated every year on June 21 to honour the healing power and universal language of music. What started in France ...

When Wolcott poet David Budbill died on September 25, 2016, a New York Times obituary remembered him as a poet “who celebrated simple pleasures and ordinary people” with a “buried … streak of ...

Artistic inspiration is not a one-way street. Art forms are often linked, as explored by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra in previous concerts exploring music and theater, and music and dance. Now, ...

After declaring that “music is sacred” during his headlining set at this year’s Coachella, Jack White has penned a new poem of the same title. “I hope you realize for a few seconds every day… By ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Ruth Padel tells the great composer’s life story, more profoundly than most biographies, in “Beethoven Variations.” By Anthony ...