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.

Songs and lore of the West will be performed and recited Sunday at the 27th annual Cowboy Poetry & Music Gathering at Sherwood Hall in Salinas. The event celebrates the tradition of music and tales ...

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 ...

Translation gives Zhongxing Zeng a sense of home. From Shandong, China, Zeng is a Ph.D. student in literature in the Department of English at ASU, an English-Chinese literary translator, and a ...

As Assistant Professor of Music Wang Lu’s composition trickles into the 200-seat Martinos auditorium, the space becomes intimate and personal. As if by magic, Wang fills the room with raw and emotive ...

Cassandra Gillig doesn’t “really draw a distinction between poetry & music, as far as my listening habits & affinities go,” and “would readily place the Dial-a-Poem albums... up there with, say, ...

Hundreds of folks wearing cowboy hats, and lots of bling on cowgirls spurred themselves forward to raise money in support Monterey County Free Libraries (MCFL). If you are not a cowpoke, you still got ...

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 ...

TEXARKANA -- Yasir DeGrate, stage name BIG$ NovaGawd, calls himself "America's Nephew." He's a veteran, poet, writer, musician, father and member of the trans community. With over 1 million Spotify ...

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.

The Mountain Goats’ 14th studio record began with one song about a man lost and helpless, fighting an urge to give up. And although John Darnielle could be recognized in that narrator’s voice, the ...