To understand sound poetry, the form Dutch artist Jaap Blonk has dedicated his life to, you have to understand the Dada movement. Dadaism stems from Marcel Duchamp’s coining of a kind of “anti-art” in ...

Other Minds Festival 23 recently finished a week of events dedicated to new and old sound poetry at ODC Theater, San Francisco. Subtitled "The Wages of Syntax," the series covered a range of vocal ...

These two debut solo albums of innovative Norwegian musicians—Kristoffer Lo and Bjørn Thevik feature long and nuanced sound poems, created with minimal means. Tuba player Lo, a member of the art-rock ...

Sound poetry – sounds preposterous, right? Surely it’s some micro-niche full of self-important avant-gardists braying on about the experimental intersections of language, music and theater? If you ...

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 ...

On an August evening this past summer, poet Henry Hughes captivated an audience at the Stayton Public Library as he performed poems with accompanying photographs projected beside him and, in the ...

Pianist Ken Berman's friendship with the late poet Eythan Klamka served as the inspiration for Sound Poetry, a musical project of mostly original compositions bookended by two solo reinterpretations ...

Music and poetry are sister arts—a truism embedded in the word "lyric." But what, exactly, do the sisters share? Opinions vary. For instance, "What is the difference between lyric poetry and song ...

"I only like poems that rhyme." Or, more drastically: "If it doesn't rhyme, it's not a poem." These declarations of allegiance to end-rhyme sound traditional or even daringly reactionary—fearlessly ...

When Yang Yu-Chiao was studying at National Taiwan University, he was exposed to a recording of the Korean pansori play "Simcheongga," which has a passage in which the main character's blind father ...

Our latest poetry feature is “The Palace,” a long poem by Kaveh Akbar. Akbar, who was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency M.F.A. programs at Randolph ...