The Poet's Guide to Transforming Poetry into Song

How Poetry Finds Its Voice: Turning Poems Into Song

Poetry comes alive when it finds its voice through music.

"the music is the emotional context in which the words exist." L.Cohen

Turning a poem into a song is an act of creative alchemy that reveals new depths of meaning and feeling. As an editor focused on poetic works, I have discovered several key steps poets can take to craft a poem into a song: