The Music Lover's Poetry Anthology celebrates the timeless connection between poetry and music with more than 150 extraordinary poems written with music as their muse. Through them, we experience the power of music to enthrall, evoke, and inspire, whether in opera houses, on road trips, or in the unexpected interior worlds to which music escorts us.

The book's nine sections (Listening to Music; Songs & Singing; The Piano & Piano Lessons; Horns, Woodwinds, & Strings; Composers; Music in Nature; Opera; Jazz & Blues; and Performances) include an exceptional array of contributors, including the most renowned voices from poetry’s present (Mark Doty, Louise Glück, Seamus Heaney, Mary Oliver, Wislawa Szymborska) and its past (Charles Baudelaire, Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, Wallace Stevens), as well as those (Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Jennifer Grotz, Kevin Young) who will determine its future.

About the Editors:

Helen Handley Houghton edited The Lover’s Quotation Book and co-edited Child, A Literary Companion. A former director of Poet’s House and of Poets & Writers, she lives in New York City. Maureen McCarthy Draper is the author of The Nature of Music and two companion CDs. She teaches in Stanford University's Continuing Studies program, and lives on Monte Bello Ridge near Los Altos, California.