Almost everyone else on V2Melody is dead. This is excellent for the catalogue and rather poor for conversation. One can set a poem, tidy a biography, and still receive no reply whatsoever. It seemed only polite, after a while, to look for a few poets who have not yet crossed to the eternal hereafter and might still answer a letter.

This is a small salon of living amateurs whose poems I have been given permission to set to music. It sits beside the classic catalogue, not inside it. There is no public submissions pile, no payment, and no attempt to manufacture a hit. V2Melody is non-profit. The recording stays here; poets are welcome to share the page.

If you arrived without an invitation, you can listen to whoever is already on the wall. If you have a token, a highlighted invitation appears at the top of this page. Poets with a V2Melody username may ask for an invitation here, with a link to published work. Inclusion is decided by a written literary assessment. That decision is final: there is no bargaining and no correspondence about it. The assessment appears on a private page for the poet, one letter for each poem.