The Audio Revolution: How to Amplify Your Poems

by
Todd Boss
From the September/October 2009 issue of
Poets & Writers Magazine
9.1.09

If we agree that poetry is partly music, then we must also concede that to read a poem is partly to sing it. And when you consider that most Americans know by heart the words of at least one popular song—the one that has been played over and over again on the radio and been downloaded countless times from iTunes—it's easy to see their love of language as a tremendous opportunity.