The conclusion of this year's serialized performance of "The Fire Sermon" section of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" for National Poetry Month. For the other sections and more info go to frankhudson.org
Here's the next installment of our serialized performance of the T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" in it's entirety as part of our Poetry Month celebration this April. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Emily Dickinson's mysterious poem that might be about slavery and the Civil War or about creative obsession. Part of our "Roots of Emily Dickinson" series for National Poetry Month. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
A moving song about our oldest ancestors and their only art. For more about this another combinations of various words with original music go to frankhudson.org
Excepts from a 1862 Ralph Waldo Emerson essay that muses on technology, renewable energy, ecology, and civic activism. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Carl Sandburg's poem of trains and destinations performed with a rock band. For more about this and other combinations of various words (mostly poetry) with original music, go to frankhudson.org
Ralph Waldo Emerson has a surprisingly contemporary observation about water that can serve or destroy us. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
Continuing our serialization of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" with the the portrayal of the aftermath of a loveless tryst. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
The next segment of "The Fire Sermon," part of our serial performance of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" for National Poetry Month. For more about this and other combination of words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Charlotte Mew's beautiful and unusual take on heaven and heavenly rewards. For more on this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
Is Emily Dickinson's famous poem simple praise for hope, or are there undercurrents? Here's my performance of it. To read more about this question go to frankhudson.org
Continuing in our "roots of Emily Dickinson" series for National Poetry month, here's a poem that influenced Dickinson. Despite the title, this isn't a hopeful poem! For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music in various styles visit frankhudson.org
Before 1890 the most famous woman writer from Amherst Massachusetts wasn’t Emily Dickinson, it was Helen Hunt Jackson. For more about this and other combinations of words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
As part of our continuing National Poetry Month serialization of Eliot's "The Waste Land," here's the first section of "The Fire Sermon" done with a bluesy touch. For more about this and other pieces combining various word and original music, visit frankhudson.org
The second part of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" performed with music. To hear Part I, "The Burial of the Dead" or the beginning of Part III "The Fire Sermon" and to read more about the Parlando Project performances visit frankhudson.org
For National Poetry Month, a Carl Sandburg collection of koans he wrote about poetry. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
Emily Dickinson's poem about the elusiveness of meaning can also be taken as a poetic credo to celebrate National Poetry Month. For more about this and other combinations of words with original music visit frankhudson.org