In the days of the ancient Greeks, poetry and sport went hand in hand at athletic festivals like the Olympics. Morning Edition is reviving that tradition with the Poetry Games. We've invited poets ...

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Poetry and song were once the same: The first poems were recited to music played on the lyre. (It's the source of the word "lyric.") Today, poems are published in books and journals, while songs ...

Emerging research finds that poetry can help us feel happier, healthier, and more connected to each other.

Nero, Stalin and Bin Laden were all fans, but what makes verse so appealing to these leaders? Benjamin Ramm explores the connection between ruthlessness and sentimentality.

My aim was to demonstrate how poetry had begun as ritual performance, accompanied on the lyre, and how after a half-millennium of the Gutenberg print era, poetry had returned to its performance ...

Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only inflame and prolong hostilities.

“Lyric poetry in the Western tradition was called lyric poetry because at one point it was performed with a lyre,” explained poet Charif Shanahan, who teaches at Northwestern and just received ...

She is working with a group that recreated an ancient lyre and aims to reverse-engineer music of the second millennium B.C. Are there any traces of Babylonian music, which hasn’t been heard for ...