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The article examines a variety of relationships between music and poetry in four major music genres that emerged in the U.S.: blues, jazz, rock, and rap. Devoting a section to each music genre, it provides brief descriptions of historical developments and main characteristics of the four music styles as well as discussions of salient music-poetry interactions. Each section gives emphasis to a specific topic: the blues stanza in blues songs and blues poetry, bebop music and the beat generation's jazz poems, rock music and Edgar Allan Poe's poetry, and rap music as contemporary urban poetry. A few references to musicalizations of poetry around the world conclude the essay.

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