Kevin FitzPatrick's poem about how he came to reassess Seamus Heaney's poem performed. For more about this, and other combinations of various words and original music, go to frankhudson.org
For International Women's Day, I perform a poem by an international woman: Lola Ridge. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
Rock music combines with spoken word as I present sections of two poems, one by a Russian and the other by a Ukrainian. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music go to frankhudson.org
I perform my own sonnet about winter giving way to spring. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, go to frankhudson.org
I perform short memorial poem from Langston Hughes' first book The Weary Blues. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
Celebrating Valentine's Day and Black History Month with this lovely performance of Langston Hughes' love poem. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, go to frankhudson.org
As I considered performing this Langston Hughes poem for Black History Month, I was moved to add my own couplet at the end. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
I can't do this piece from a poem by Langston Hughes justice tonight, but I feel right now that's of little matter in this time and place. So, just a bare demo: a beat and guitar. After I finished laying the song I made of Hughes' poem down, I carried on riffing on a changed up version of another song for some time.
This subtle blues poem by Afro-American poet Langston Hughes performed for Black History Month. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
Kicking off Black History Month early: an encomium to a great American artist's Jazz recording. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
A beautiful and harrowing poem by Ethna McKiernan performed with my music, completing our series of musical presentations of her work this winter. The previous 3 episodes here will show other aspects of why I encourage you to read more of McKiernan, perhaps in her final collection, which can be found at this link: https://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=543&a=74 For more about this and other various combinations of words, mostly poetry with original music, visit frankhudson.org
Poet McKiernan spent her last years helping the homeless, dedicating her final collection to them. Here's my performance of one poem of hers about that experience that was included in that collection, "Light Rolling Slowly Backwards," which is available from Salmon Poetry press https://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=543&a=74
Here's a moving song adapted from a poem in Irish-American poet Ethna McKiernan's "Light Moving Backwards" collection. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
Ethna McKiernan's arch poem may make you smile. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music go to frankhudson.org.
More Ethna McKiernan? https://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=543&a=74
American poet Elinor Wylie's gorgeous lyric about walking with someone in winter snow performed in this new song setting. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
I perform my fresh translation of the first part of one of Arthur Rimbaud's earliest poems, one which marks the cold and dim arrival of a new year. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
This rude Edwardian ditty critiques holiday charity. For more about this, more polite and impolite songs, and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
A poetry performance written for this solstice and in memoriam to two poets/friends whose voices I miss. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
This short and gothic Emily Dickinson poem is full of surprising details. For more about that and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Instead of our usual Poetry's Greatest Hits selection, a short poem of mine performed with chiming electric guitars, drums and cello. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
We turn American poet Robert Frost's early short poem inside out to make it a rocking Blues number. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Here's Robert Frost's tale in harvest time performed, a piece appropriate for American Thanksgiving. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
I adapted this classical Chinese poem about grief and mourning into an English language song. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cats Cradle this moving summation of life is described as "The Last Rites of the Bokononist Faith." The LYL Band performs it to complete our Vonnegut series honoring him on the 99th anniversary of his birth. For more about this, other pieces in our Vonnegut series, and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
Another short song using words from Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle set to music and performed by The LYL Band. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org