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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

Sappho's Old Age (Rimbaud version)

I translated and adapted this poem by the ancient Greek poet Sappho to create a song that now...

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The Subway

A musical performance of a poem from a poet you wouldn't associate with urban grit: Joyce Kilmer....

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Distance Blues (Theory)

Another short, sharp observation about love and life from the last "Twenties," this one written...

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Songs of a Girl II

Written by Mary Carolyn Davies, a little-known woman from the early Modernist era of 1915, I...

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How Many Flowers

Emily Dickinson's tiny poem about art and artists performed. For more about this and other...

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Christina Rossetti's May

English poet Christina Rossetti's mysterious song of May, and May not.  For more about this and...

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Rimbaud's Dawn

I perform my own fresh translation of Rimbaud's prose poem from his Illuminations today. For more...

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In England Now (Home-Thoughts, from Abroad)

“Oh, to be in England now that April’s here…” a wistful poem of remembering spring while being...

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Jazz Fantasia

For #InternationalJazzDay at the end of #NationalPoetryMonth, here's some early (circa 1920) Jazz...

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April Rain Song

Langston Hughes wrote this charming spring poem for children, but even obsolete children might...

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What the Thunder Said Part 4, completing our performance of The Waste Land

For 5 years the Parlando Project has been serially performing The Waste Land for each...

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Musicians Wrestle Everywhere

For #NationalPoetryMonth, we celebrate Emily Dickinson and her poem about hearing a song before...

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Branches

For #NationalPoetryMonth, Carl Sandburg\'s wistful April tree in a spring rainstorm poem...

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Reapers

Jean Toomer\'s short, symbolic poem about work and responsibility performed in a modest folk song...

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What the Thunder Said Part 3

Continuing our April #NationalPoetryMonth celebrating performance of the last section of T. S....

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Mystery Baseball

A wonderful and wonder-filled poem I used to hear its author Phil Dacey read and now I perform it...

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The Origin of Baseball

Kenneth Patchen created this American myth and I perform it on this day of the season\'s home...

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Eliot\'s Oak

For #NationalPoetryMonth here\'s a performance of Longfellow\'s deserves-to-be-better-known...

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What the Thunder Said Part 2

Continuing our #NationalPoetryMonth celebration and serialized performance of \"The Waste Land,\"...

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What the Thunder Said Part 1

For 5 years this has been our National Poetry Month tradition: performing the whole of T. S....

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