Examining a song’s lyrics shorn of the music can highlight the themes that a songwriter returns to over time.

Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

Where are the writers who work on the dock? Where are stevedores, the longshoremen? The pipe fitters? The electricians?” ...

To understand the role of storytelling in contemporary pop music, researchers at UC Berkeley created a machine learning ...

The inner and outer forecasts don’t always match up. This short poem by Louise Glück starts out cold and stays that way for most of its 11 lines. And then it bursts into flame. At first, the emotional ...

It’s not an animal that resembles an elk and runs quickly. A ghazal is a type of poem. Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic ...

Robert Frost presented himself as a simple man. Not for him the literary circles of London or the stilted dinner parties of Brahmin Boston. Nor was he at home in academia. He dropped out of college ...

Students and professors gathered in 309 Havemeyer Hall on Thursday for the annual Alfred Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest—a tradition that invites the student body to present their worst ...

The purpose of lyrics translation is to seek a rendition that closely approximates the original’s vocal performance. The difficulty of translation lies in coordinating with the music, which involves ...

You can usually stir up debate by comparing song lyrics to poetry. As a publication that highlights the exploits of songwriters, we believe that writing a song presents a unique set of challenges and ...

Installation view of Shanzhai Lyric, Incomplete Poem (2015–ongoing) (all images courtesy the artists) Founded by born-and-raised New Yorkers Ming Lin and Alexandra Tatarsky, Shanzhai Lyric is based on ...