The day Johnny Cash died / Lamar Alexander
Reduced to rhyme: on contemporary doggerel / David Caplan
The sonnet within the song: country lyrics and the Shakespearean sonnet structure / Charlotte Pence
Rap poetry 101 / Adam Bradley
It don't mean a thing: the blues mask of modernism / Kevin Young
Gangsta rap's heroic substrata: a survey of the evidence / John Paul Hampstead
At the crossroads: the intersection of poetry and the blues / Keith Flynn
Country music lyrics: is there poetry in those twangy rhymes? / Jill Jones
Similarities and differences between song lyrics and poetry / Pat Pattison
Words and music: three stories / Wyn Cooper
The triumph of Icarus: Sam Cooke and the creative spirit / Peter Guralnick
The Jo Blow version / David Kirby
A Nobel for Dylan? / Gordon Ball
Lyric impression, muscle memory, Emily, and the Jack of Hearts / Claudia Emerson
Don Khan and truck-driving wives: Dylan's fluctuating lyrics / Ben Yagoda
Thoughts on "Me and Bobby McGee" and the oral and literary traditions / David Daniel
The soup that could change the world / Beth Ann Fennelly
Laughing in tune: R.E.M. and the post-confessional lyric / Jeffrey Roessner
Sweetness follows: Michael Stipe, John Keats and the consolations of time / Eric Reimer
Sweeping up the jokers: Leonard Cohen's "The stranger song" / Brian Howe
Facing the music: the poetics of Bruce Springsteen / Robert P. McParland
Coming into your town: Okkervil River's "Black" / Stephen M. Deusner
Still holding at the seams: Magnolia Electric Co.'s Josephine and the contemporary poetic sequence / Jesse Graves
Not to oppose evil: Johnny Cash's bad luck wind / Tony Tost.