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1974 single by Phoebe Snow

"Poetry Man" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Phoebe Snow. It was written by Snow, produced by Dino Airali, and first appeared on her 1974 self-titled debut album.

Composition/ recording/ release

"Poetry Man" was the second song written by Phoebe Snow - (Phoebe Snow quote:)"The first one [was] so lame I hardly remember it".^[2] Snow would have the basic song written in five or ten minutes, and the song in its final form finished in about an hour.^[2][3] Snow would recall that the "bunch of hippies" she knew through their mutual participation in talent nights at Greenwich Village venues dismissed her composition as "pedestrian", advising Snow to "stick with the [Delta] blues covers" she typically performed.^[2] However "Poetry Man" was among the songs on the demo which Shelter Records scout Dino Airali late in 1972 advised Snow to record to submit to Shelter president Denny Cordell who