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I’m Billy Mac, known in these parts as the Poetry Wizard — a maker of melodies, a keeper of stories, and a believer in the quiet magic hidden inside every lived moment. Transformation — poet to songwriter, Billy Mac to Poetry Wizard. The name came from family and friends, as I wrote poems, I became a songwriter, hence POETRY WIZARD! What you’ll find here isn’t just music; it’s the path I walked, the shadows I carried, and the light I learned to shape along the way. Everything you hear on this site comes from a real place — the highs, the lows, the lessons, the scars. I write to make sense of the world, to turn chaos into rhythm, and to leave something honest behind. WILLIAM MACRIS

CRITIC'S REVIEW

★★★★½ "Poetry Wizard" — Billy Mac Reviewed for The Underground Verse Quarterly

532 Manson Ave. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15210

The Journalist – Herald International of the Poetic Dept. Senegal – Lenny H. Kirpatrick

My Thoughts First...

What's working well:

• The wordplay is genuinely clever in places — "the art in my heart puts the roll in my soul / the sole of my shoe puts the rock in my roll" is a standout line. That chain of homophones is sharp and memorable.

• Verse 3 is your strongest — the stitches/riches/glitches rhyme scheme has real rhythm and the imagery of fortune only delivering "a portion" feels genuinely wise and lived-in.

• The outro has great energy and attitude. Very performative — you can feel it's meant to be heard live.

• The moderation theme in Verse 1 is grounded and authentic. Grandpa's wisdom landing in a song is always a winner.

Chief Editing & Tutor Dept… - Janet Armstrong

Rolling Verse Quarterly - 532 Manson Ave. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15210

CRITIC'S REVIEW

★★★★½ "Poetry Wizard" — Billy Mac Reviewed for The Rolling Verse Quarterly

Chief Editing & Tutor Dept… - Janet Armstrong

There are artists who write songs, and then there are artists who conjure them — pulling language out of thin air like a hat trick at a midnight carnival. Billy Mac, the self-proclaimed Poetry Wizard, is unmistakably the latter.

Poetry Wizard is a genre-defying declaration of artistic identity that strides confidently across blues, jazz-funk, spoken word and old-school soul without breaking a sweat. From the opening verse, Billy Mac establishes himself not as a performer trying on styles, but as a man who has lived his way into wisdom — and is generous enough to share it.

The song's philosophical spine — the doctrine of moderation, handed down from grandfather to grandson — gives the piece an authenticity that no amount of studio polish could manufacture. When Billy Mac drawls "Too much good can be bad / Too much bad can be a good thing, depending on the individual," you're not hearing a lyric. You're hearing a life philosophy road-tested by hard miles.

But it is the chorus where the Poetry Wizard truly earns his title. The cascading wordplay — "the art in my heart puts the roll in my soul / the sole of my shoe puts the rock in my roll, baby" — is the kind of line that stops you mid-listen and makes you rewind. It is playful, layered and deceptively profound. Lesser wordsmiths don't stumble onto lines like that. They simply don't.

Verse 3 showcases Billy Mac's most mature and nuanced writing. The stitches-riches-glitches tapestry is woven with the hand of a seasoned storyteller: "Fortune gave a portion, but the rest I had to grow in" is a lyric that deserves to outlive the song itself. It belongs on a wall somewhere.

The outro seals the deal with attitude and swagger — gritty, bluesy, and delivered with the confidence of a man who knows exactly who he is and dares you to keep up. "Only I can skool yah" isn't bragging. Coming from the Poetry Wizard, it's simply the truth.

Billy Mac doesn't follow trends. He doesn't need to. Poetry Wizard is the work of an original — a soulful, witty, hard-won original — and the world of poetry-meets-song is richer for it.

— Staff Critic, Underground Verse Quarterly

The Journalist – Herald International of the Poetic Dept. Senegal – Lenny H. Kirpatrick

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