Guest reader Heidi Randen performs Frances Cornford's haunting ghost story with eerie music. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
A performance of another unusual short lyric from British poet Frances Cornford today. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Dave Moore's song of the starling performed by the LYL Band. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music flock to frankhudson.org
Frances Cornford's catchy lyric is much remembered and much dissed. Here it is performed along with G. K. Chesterton's retort. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Not leaving winter yet? Sara Teasdale's short lyric meditation stays there, and I perform it today. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
For Leap Year Day, a Dave Moore song about mysterious cosmologies and the quantum states of love. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Paul Laurence Dunbar's famous poem about the Afro-American experience performed as a song for #BlackHistoryMonth. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Paul Laurence Dunbar's most famous poem performed with an orchestral folk arrangement for Black History Month. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music go to frankhudson.org
Two episodes from Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln biography: Lincoln's birth and the death of his mother when Lincoln was nine are performed with a surprising introductory quote. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
An orchestral spoken-word piece about love and partnership that will perhaps suite this Valentine's Day. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music go to frankhudson.org
Marianne Moore's poem explores some implacable problems in American culture in her characteristic way: both plain spoken and knotty at the same time. Perhaps my musical performance can help illuminate it? For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
I created this from part of a talk by Angela Davis during this Black History Month, weaving a few sentences from that into this poem. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
The close of William Blake's story of the creation of the world in its fallen state performed with saxophone, piano, bass & drums. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
In this original ballad, a young woman accompanies a man who comes to her town seeking to revenge the killing of his brother. For more about this and other combinations of various words and various music visit frankhudson.org
Yeats' harrowing plea for his country still resonates across nations and time. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Rimbaud's mysterious poem/incantation is given a fresh rhyming translation and performed with a rock band. For more about this and other combination of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Edna St. Vincent Millay's short poetic ghost story. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Pablo Neruda's opening poem from his first popular collection performed from my new translation English translation. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
The 20th love poem in Pablo Neruda's "Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada" (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) performed in my own new English translation. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins' stern meditation on winter and adversity performed with Mellotron accompaniment. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
I was translating Dada founder Hugo Ball's 1924 poem when this week's events lead me to transform it into a blues. For more about this and other combinations of various word and original music, visit frankhudson.org
Shakespeare's poem of winter endurance performed. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music go to frankhudson.org
An 1896 poem about the experience of old age experiencing the unsettledness of sense of age performed with folk-rock accompaniment. The dream of life. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Ralph Waldo Emerson's lament for the past performed. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music go to frankhudson.org
Genevieve Taggard's emotional Mobius loop of a poem sung accompanied by violin, cello, piano, vibes, and acoustic guitar. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org