Poet, songwriter, composer and singer Rod McKuen died Thursday in Beverly Hills after suffering from pneumonia, friend and producer Jim Pierson told the L.A. Times. McKuen was 81. McKuen was ...

Rod McKuen, the husky-voiced "King of Kitsch" whose music, verse and spoken-word recordings in the 1960s and '70s won him an Oscar nomination and made him one of the best-selling poets in history, has ...

Nearly everyone has heard of Rod McKuen: he has written 900 songs that have been recorded by other people and sold more than 50 million records; his three books of poetry have sold more than a million ...

Rod McKuen is credited with more than 200 albums and more than 30 collections of poetry. He died on Thursday after a lengthy illness. The obituary in The Los Angeles Times describes Rod McKuen as ...

“K,I, Kaleidoscope / Love is another color from hope / Pain is a separate color from joy / How many colors there are to enjoy.” That refrain hovered in my mind like a “ear worm” (not like a brain worm ...