When John Keats died a yet unheralded, English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley linked him with another died-to-soon poet Thomas Chatterton. A century later Black poet Anne Spencer extended that tradition by adding the name of a fellow Afro-American, Paul Laurence Dunbar, to the chain of hallowed poets.
This is the latest in our re-release of some of our favorite early Parlando Project musical pieces for for National Poetry Month. More Parlando pieces are at frankhudson.org, including other pieces by Dunbar and Spencer.