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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

Bokonon's 53rd Calypso (Nice, Nice, Very Nice)

In Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut created a fictional religion whose psalms were calypso songs. This...

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Hello Babies

Kurt Vonnegut wrote this short baptismal litany for a character in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater....

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The Shadow on the Stone

English poet Thomas Hardy's complicated ghost and grief poem performed with a funky band. For...

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In a Disused Graveyard

Finishing our Halloween series, Robert Frost's poem makes a wry comment suitable for All Saints...

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Walter De La Mare Tells His Listeners About Jack and Jill

In this parody, American poet Louis Untermeyer takes a nursery rhyme and uses it to parody De La...

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They're All Dead Now

Dave Moore's chilling ballad about something more frightening than witches performed. Well worth...

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Reynardine

Continuing our Halloween series: early 20th century Irish poet Seosamh MacCathmhaoil's revision...

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The Good People

Starting our Halloween Series with this spooky fairy song from Joseph Campbell (Seosamh...

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Bond and Free

An odd short Robert Frost poem in which love and connection and then freedom and free thought are...

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Edward Thomas' The Owl

A song I made out of British poet Edward Thomas' tale of an overnight stop during a bicycle tour...

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Timepiece

Another elegy, this time from modern American poet Kevin FtizPatrick. Kevin himself recently...

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I Think I Was Enchanted

Emily Dickinson wrote this ecstatic poem about her experience of another poet (thought to be...

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Returns

An angular rock performance of a Kevin FitzPatrick poem about trying to return a pair of...

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The Folly of Being Comforted

Irish poet W. B. Yeats once took exception to too-easy comforting, and I have recast his poem...

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Squid Speaks of the Electric Guitar

Two modern guitarists said some interesting things about the electric guitar in a recent...

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Why Now, Vocalissimus

A short meditation on what stands outside of silent poetry performed with acoustic guitar. For...

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Wind Rising in the Alleys - Big Kids in the Alley

For our second American Labor Day piece, two labor marching songs performed by a rock band, one...

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Cobwebs, Steel, and Moonshine

For American Labor Day I adapted the end of Carl Sandburg's hymn to workers "Smoke and Steel" and...

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E Flat

The LYL Band loudly romp through a Dave Moore song about the resonate note at the core of the...

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To Poets Not Dying Young

Songs and poems often sing about poets who died young. This isn't one of those. For more about...

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