Jessica McMillan
@JLMcMillan · 4:24
The Music of Poetry: Musicians who are poets and poets who are musical
And there are some really interesting forms of poetry that are explicitly meant to be sung, like the guzzle, really cool ancient version of poetry form that is still very popular today all over the world. And there's even a famous hiphop by spoken word poet and journalist Patricia Smith that I would highly recommend looking up on Poetry Foundation. In fact, the Poetryfoundation. Org has an entire section of its website dedicated to the relationship between music and poetry