On Writing : Is Poetry the same as Song Writing? by Jeff Lyons

I think they are different after all can you see yourself listening to Shakespeare songs...

I don't know... some of those sonnets are pretty musical... :)

Paul Simon poetry to music great poet/song writer

Now as a poet I can say this listening to poetry over music isn't an unfamiliar or new territory as over the years many poets have made some of the best albums with listening too. Gill Scott-The Revolution Will Not Be Televised The Last Poets and even Jack Kerouac. But if we want to take it a step further Hip Hop its self has been the rawest form of poetry made and has proven that if done right poetry can be listened too.

There must be some similarity, since Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature as a songwriter

I would say, from personal experience that the poet and song writer produce their words based on the soul, that reaches to thought as a release to pursue this effort. They have more in common than not.