An early poem by Ezra Pound has something to say about the role and lot of a poet in a culture that expects and yet is largely indifferent to the art. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
An uncommonly mysterious poem with a touch of exoticism by pioneering English Modernist T. E. Hulme. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music in various styles visit frankhudson.org
Before he was the "Make It New" guy, Ezra Pound wrote this poem and prayer now performed here in an orchestral folk arrangement. For more about this and other combinations of of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Neglected Imagist founder F. S. Flint's early mystical-social-political ode gets a folk-rock performance. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
E. E. Cummings poem about an approaching summer storm given an unplugged acoustic guitar performance at the edge of Lake Superior's North Shore. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
A prayer written by Max Ochs and performed by the LYL Band that I think speaks to and from the hearts of artists. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org and for more on Max Ochs: maxochs.weebly.com
William Blake has a meditation on being bothered by a fly from his "Songs of Experience." For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
Robert Frost's lyric about the lyric moment set to a driving EDM beat. Our 350th piece in the past 3 years! For more about this and other combinations or various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
A song about liberty, freedom, independence, and days. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
A summer love poem with an almost hallucinatory image at its center written by Amy Levy. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Kenneth Patchen's rhapsodic love poem performed by Dave Moore and the LYL Band. For more about this and other combinations of various words with various original music, visit frankhudson.org
Carl Sandburg's short poem about a Chicago summer night a century ago is mixed with reflections from later nights in this performance with original music. For more about this and other combinations of various word and music, visit frankhudson.org
a fairy song from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" performed with original music. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
Henry David Thoreau's journal meditation on returning June and summer set to folk-rock music. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Thomas Wentworth Higginson is largely responsible for the the emergence of Emily Dickinson, but did you know he wrote poetry too? For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
This anonymous English rhyme from the 17th Century seems surreal, but there's an trick to it. To find out more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
For U. S, Memorial Day, a poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, go to frankhudson.org
This song of spring and May by Longfellow is a delicately balanced carpe diem poem. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music go to frankhudson.org
My revision of Orrick Johns' 1917 poem about a farm wife, but this time with an electric folk-rock band. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
A song taken from a 1917 poem by Orrick Johns about a farm wife. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
Orrick Johns little-known 1915 poem may have helped inspire the much better-known "Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
If life is precious, what do we pay for it? Do you pay with money or falling leaves? For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
Kenneth Patchen's 1936 outlook was desperate, and alas he was right. Here's his poem performed bass, drums and guitar for 2019. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Emily Dickinson's spring poem performed to 1967-style music. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org