Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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June 16, 2011 KR Blog KR

Mix Tape: “Anything I Can’t Sing, I Call a Poem”

Thanks for the quote, Dylan.

Tune in, turn up, jot down: Poems from the radio.

Make room for poets in your record collection. (Lucy Ives would fit nicely between PJ Harvey and Jane’s Addiction–or Hall & Oates and Journey, for that matter.)

Pinsky on grammar as melody.

Composer Eric Whitacre: “A musical relationship with a poem is very much like an actual relationship with a person.”

Sometime soon you’ll be able to grab some popcorn and watch the Best American Poetry 2011.