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 ...

Surprisingly, we're left with relatively few recordings of poetry sung by jazz artists. Speaking truth and emotion, sonic and rhythmic, structured and free, poetry and jazz seem like natural born ...

Still, I avoided writing about my heritage. It didn’t seem like poetry material. That changed in 2018. At Missouri State University, I took a class on literary publication. During a discussion ...

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, as well as National Poetry Month. This week's Take Five celebrates both art forms in the same place. Each of the five songs featured here was originally written ...

Heck, he practically invented jazz poetry, a form focused on rhythm, and his work remains a staple of the art form to this day. Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man—his ...

An innovator of the literary art form known as the jazz poem during the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes died before the piece was ever staged with music as he intended. McCurdy and his quartet have brought ...

Springfield writer Rex Ybañez shares the story behind a poem he wrote that blends culture, Spam, breakfast, jazz and a few other ingredients.