Making A Case For Her: She Is Stardust, She Is Golden, But We’ve Got To Get Back To Considering Joni Mitchell as a Poet

Wednesday is about books, and writing. Today, I share an academic essay I wrote recently considering Joni Mitchell as a poet, in comparison with Bob Dylan.

Previously I mentioned studying a paper towards an Honours degree in English. The paper is around modern poetry, both the writing of our own original work and the analysis of 20th and 21st Century poetic forms. I shared with you my first essay about the poetry of Gil Scott Heron and the poetics that informed his work. (But only after the essay had been…