A Carl Sandburg courting poem for his life partner Lillian Steichen, full of love, yearning, and admiration. Performed with original music in a way that wouldn't be too foreign to Carl the musician and singer: acoustic guitar and vocal.

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Robert Frost's version of a weird tale he borrowed from William Butler Yeats is performed today with a folk-rock arrangement.

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Edward Thomas, the honest and observant nature poet, finds signs of Spring in, well, bird poop. It's things like this that make him a cut above for me. Here's a rock band setting performance of his poem.

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Others have set Anna Akhmatova's poetry to music effectively, but I decided to create and perform my own setting for this poem about lost connections. 

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This is Frank O'Hara's love poem of separation -- separation from the beloved, separation of the lovers from the world. In this performance of it I supply a rich and strange musical piece to accompany it.

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Sara Teasdale's meditation on change and not-change in wartime performed.

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