Humorist Don Marquis examined the pretensions a very serious young person of the early 1920s. I added one update and present it for a 21st Century audience.
Poet and musician Dave Moore expands on Dorothy Parker's famous critique of suicide in this song. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
Robert Frost's stark tale of a racially motivated murder told over piano, bass and drums. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
Emily Dickinson's playful side is displayed in this short audio piece performed with acoustic guitar, bass and electric piano.
Emily Dickinson's ambiguous song about how we approach the truth performed with original folk-rock music. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
For this Armistice Day, let's hear a performance of Thomas Hardy's mysterious 63 word poem about war and time. For more about this and other combination of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
Eleanor Farjeon's elegy to Edward Thomas after Thomas' death in WWI, here performed with strings, piano, and drums. For more about this and other combinations of various words with orginal music, visit frankhudson.org
British WWI poet Edward Thomas' nature poem performed here can be read as part of his personal debate about volunteering for the front lines. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
Canadian poet Robert W. Service wrote often of endurance, here's one of his sung by Dave Moore and the LYL Band. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
Carl Sandburg's trenchant political poem awaits its outcome. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org