“Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people.” PeopleCommunityCrazyModernPoetHolyAncientImmenseStorytellerDescendantsCrazy PeopleBardsTroubadours Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s, but then started writing songs. Bob Dylan's a poet in the sense of bard, aoidos or vates.” WritingSongPoetSingersBobSongwritersDylanSinger SongwritersWriting SongsBards Author:Richard F. Thomas
“I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of text as well as intentionality or dance on the page.” WellsSoundPossibilityPoetExpressionPagesDrivenVocalBardsIntentionality Author:Anne Waldman