English poet Christina Rossetti's mysterious song of May, and May not. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
I perform my own fresh translation of Rimbaud's prose poem from his Illuminations today. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music go to frankhudson.org
“Oh, to be in England now that April’s there…” a wistful poem of remembering spring while being separated from one’s homeland. As we grow older, are we all separated in some way from some Spring? For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
For #InternationalJazzDay at the end of #NationalPoetryMonth, here's some early (circa 1920) Jazz Poetry by Carl Sandburg. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
Langston Hughes wrote this charming spring poem for children, but even obsolete children might like it. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
For 5 years the Parlando Project has been serially performing The Waste Land for each #NationalPoetry Month. In today's concluding part, The LYL Band tears open the poem's fragments and masks that came before in a nakedly emotional expiation. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
For #NationalPoetryMonth, we celebrate Emily Dickinson and her poem about hearing a song before it's sung by performing her work with original music. For more about this and other combinations of various words with our music, visit frankhudson.org
For #NationalPoetryMonth, Carl Sandburg's wistful April tree in a spring rainstorm poem performed with acoustic guitar. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.,org
Jean Toomer's short, symbolic poem about work and responsibility performed in a modest folk song setting. As we continue our #NationalPoetryMonth celebration, you can find other combinations of various words and original music at frankhudson.org
Continuing our April #NationalPoetryMonth celebrating performance of the last section of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
A wonderful and wonder-filled poem I used to hear its author Phil Dacey read and now I perform it myself as part of my #NationalPoetryMonth celebration. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Kenneth Patchen created this American myth and I perform it on this day of the season's home opener for #NationalPoetryMonth. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
For #NationalPoetryMonth here's a performance of Longfellow's deserves-to-be-better-known sonnet about the loss of American Indigenous culture. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, go to frankhudson.org
Continuing our #NationalPoetryMonth celebration and serialized performance of "The Waste Land," in this section we fully enter the titular dry Waste Land. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
For 5 years this has been our National Poetry Month tradition: performing the whole of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" piece by piece. Today we start the final section! For more about this and other pieces combining various words with original music and to follow the rest of our #NationalPoetryMonth celebration, visit frankhudson.org
My candle burns at both ends! For World Poetry Day, a performance of two contrasting poems about poetry, art, and passion from a pair of American poets.
Edna St. Vincent Millay's wry Irish fairytale of the child of a leprechaun and a friar is today's song. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Three poems from deserves-to-be-better-known Irish poet Joseph Campbell's Earth of Cualann performed for this spring and St. Patricks Day. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
Shakespeare's spring lyric in praise of music performed with acoustic guitar, bass, and Mellotron. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music go to frankhudson.org
Here's a 2016 LYL Band performance of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem from his A Coney Island of the Mind presented here in memoriam. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Langston Hughes' poem about the sweep of Black History performed. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music that varies too, visit frankhudson.org
As part of our observation of Black History Month, I perform this early Langston Hughes poem, seeking to bring out its subtle mystery. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Claude McKay's wistful winter love poem (a double sonnet!) performed for Valentines Day during our observation of Black History Month. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Another piece for Black History Month: a 1925 Harlem Renaissance poem about Black heritage and its music performed. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
I found this lesser known poem in 1925's The New Negro anthology. Written by Georgia Douglas Johnson, its compressed emotional power comes through today! For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org