Poetry Mixtapes

Jackie ♦ April 26, 2008 ♦ Leave a Comment

In an lovely coincidence, the most recent issue of Poets & Writers features a piece on how to arrange poems in a manuscript by Katrina Vandenberg that compares the process to making the perfect mix-tape, complete with Nick Hornby references and a downloadable playlist. Of course, as a poet who loves and mourns the dying art of the mixtape, I ate it up with a spoon.

Then my friend Dawn, who is always ahead of me in tech matters, introduced me to Muxtape with a dreamy muxtape of hers, which led me to poke around there more and discover a poetry muxtape featuring Elizabeth Bishop, Dylan Thomas and more. Synchronicity!