If I Could Write a Song

Words and music by Ronn Kilby

I always knew that How to Grow a Poem would take this turn one day.

Without getting bogged down in what scholars tell us about the ancient and enduring relationship between poetry and music, as evidenced in the Western world by the work of the ancient “singer-songwriters” like Homer and Sappho to Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan in our time, and globally by po…