Comes a time – the final poems.

Note from the editor

As of today, Stereo Stories  will no longer run poetry on this website.

This is not a reflection of the  90 poems that are on the site. Rather, it is the result of wanting the site to return to its origins: very strong non-fiction stories in prose about songs.

Poetry certainly has had its place here over 10 years. It has broadened the site’s horizons, made us think differently about writing, about music, and about writing about music.

If the site was a print publication (one can dream, cannot one, of a quarterly magazine?) poetry would have its place as a form of Stereo Story but online is a different matter. You can only publish one item at a time, which skews the weighting of a piece.

I recommend our long-time partner sites Almanac Music and Almanac Poetry*, which each have a broad editorial policy, as likely homes for poems about songs. There are bound to be other sites further afield.

Thank you to all the poets who have written for Stereo Stories. Your poems