A 1915 poem by Dada/Surrealist artist Man Ray recast as if it could have been performed by 12-string blues revivalist Dave Ray of Koerner Ray and Glover. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
W. B. Yeats Romantic and romantic poem about the offering of love. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
The Parlando Project sings D. H. Lawrence's mysterious encounter on a snowy landscape. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, go to frankhudson.org
Afro-American Paul Laurence Dunbar had to succeed in the all-to-conventional 19th century poetry marketplace, but listen to this love poem's metaphor twice.
Vachel Lindsay thought of the great President in his own time of national torment. For more about this and other audio pieces combining various words with original music, go to frankhudson.org
Sara Teasdale wrote some of the saddest love songs I've ever read. This one has a fascinating back-story. To read about and find other combination of various words (mostly poetry) with original music, visit frankhudson.org
A sonnet that launched a thousand valentines, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famous Victorian love poem. For more about this and other combination of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Jean Toomer's striking love poem performed with original music. For more about this and 300 other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
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Sleep with me 'cause you're going to be a corpse soon! How romantic is that valentine? Andrew Marvell's famous poem starts out satire and ends up sincere. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Is this the LYL Band's State of the Union speech response? For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, go to frankhudson.org
A Dave Moore song about belief and truth adopted from a part of the "Nite Owl" and "Before Watchman" comics series. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
A tribute to Minnesota musician Willie Murphy and the scene he helped foster on West Bank side of the Mississippi in Minneapolis. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Early 20th century poet Charlotte Mew wrote this strikingly modern sounding meditation on men out of balance with nature featuring majestic trees and a dead rat. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Fantasy is after all, just metaphor applied to a different layer of art. Another song using a changeling to stand for alienation. For more about this and other combination of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Charlotte Mew cast a chilling fairy story with acute psychological insight. It's like Peter Pan meets Tam Lin! For more about his and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
A fantastic and apocalyptic tale from the early 20th century with a psychedelic pop accompaniment. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
This Imagist poem about a rooster has a mysterious origin story concerning its author Hilda Conkling. For more about that and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
My performance of the final poem in Wallace Stevens' "Harmonium" collection is dedicated to David Shove. For more about this and other combination of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Federico García Lorca's poem plays with death and youth mixing beauty and dark humor. For more about his and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
D. H. Lawrence's epigrammatic poem on nature's view of self-pity performed to original music with drums. For more about this and other combinations of various words with music go to frankhudson.org
Rilke looked at a damaged Greek status of the god of poetry and saw something of himself, his art, and us in it. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org