Watch Allen Ginsberg perform the first song he ever wrote, on the roof of his apartment.

Watch Allen Ginsberg perform the first song he ever wrote, on the roof of his apartment.

By Walker Caplan | June 3, 2021

How the Poets Wrote <br>of Billie Holiday

How the Poets Wrote
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Cedar Sigo on the Voice of a Lifetime, and the Writing it Inspired

By Cedar Sigo | June 3, 2021

How Don Cherry Employed the Metaphysical Body-Space to Inspire Communal Creativity

How Don Cherry Employed the Metaphysical Body-Space to Inspire Communal Creativity

Fumi Okiji on the Practice of Listening and the Magic of an Avant-Garde Jazz Trumpeter

By Fumi Okiji | June 3, 2021

“Filthy, Funny, and Flamboyant.” How the New York of the ‘80s Spawned the Lunachicks

“Filthy, Funny, and Flamboyant.” How the New York of the ‘80s Spawned the Lunachicks

“We were born weirdos, and New York offered no resistance to that.”

By The Lunachicks with Jeanne Fury | June 2, 2021

Get in the mood for summer with Maya Angelou's 1957 performance of calypso hit

Get in the mood for summer with Maya Angelou's 1957 performance of calypso hit "Run Joe."

By Emily Temple | May 28, 2021

Watch this electrifying Gil Scott-Heron performance at Woodstock 1994.

Watch this electrifying Gil Scott-Heron performance at Woodstock 1994.

By Vanessa Willoughby | May 27, 2021

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Howard Sounes Considers the Hard Realities of Being an Aging Icon

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Announcing the second season of FUSE: A <em>BOMB</em> Podcast.

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Writers, take heart: K-Pop superstars are just like you!

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Beyond Good and Evil: Reconsidering the Toxic Myth of the “Transgressive” Artist

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Martha C. Nussbaum on What We Forgive in the Name of Art

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Jonathan Taplin: When Music Was a Vanguard for Political Movements

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In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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Death and the River: Close Reading a Classic Scots’ Border Ballad

Death and the River: Close Reading a Classic Scots’ Border Ballad

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St. Vincent has a book recommendation for you.

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