Parlando featuring Frank Hudso

The Coromandel Fishers

Sarojini Naidu's poem of stalwart Bengali fishermen asked to be sung, so I sang it. The author...

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• 2 días

The World Is Too Much With Us

William Wordsworth's well-known sonnet performed, as the word sonnet means, as a little song....

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• 3 días

The Minstrel Boy

For National Poetry Month this year I'm looking at and performing poems found in a pair of 1920s...

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• 7 días

Each in His Own Tongue

Today I read a summary of poet Mary Oliver's approach by poet and critic A. M. Juster. He...

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• 9 días

Sea Fever

We're celebrating National Poetry Month with musical presentations of poems taken from a gendered...

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• 11 días

There is no Frigate like a Book

We continue our National Poetry Month feature examination of a pair of century-old children's...

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• 14 días

Piping Down the Valleys Wild

My feature this National Poetry Month is going to be examination of two 1920's poetry...

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• 16 días

Singing at Dusk

Emmy Hemmings is a forgotten Dada artist, launching the famous Cabaret Voltaire during WWI as am...

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• 20 días

Whispering Often

Here's a poem for March, for Spring, and for Easter now turned into a song, The words were...

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• 22 días

Cool Tombs

Poet Carl Sandburg goes gothic-graveyard for this poem about Love & Death. I decided to accompany...

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• 25 días

The Wind Didn't Come from the Orchard Today

Here's a playful and mysterious Emily Dickinson poem for World Poetry Day. The Parlando Project...

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• 30 días

The Drunken Singer

I remind myself today that I sometimes write lyrics, so here's a piece that features my own words...

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• 1 mes

The Late Singer

William Carlos Williams' Spring poem reminds us that it's never too late to sing. I had to cancel...

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The Last Antelope

Edwin Ford Piper is an early 20th century Midwestern American poet who's largely been forgotten....

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• 1 mes

When the Dream Outruns the Real

Poet Dave Moore's song about when "Follow your dream" or "Do what you love..." meets up with...

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• 2 meses

Two Aunties by Fenton Johnson

Black Chicago poet Fenton Johnson published these two free-verse poetic portraits in Others...

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• 2 meses

The Prodigal Son

Pioneering Black Chicago Poet Fenton Johnson termed this poem a literary spiritual in his 1915...

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• 2 meses

Mistah Witch

Even in 1913, Black Chicago poet Fenton Johnson was already using Blues-language in his literary...

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• 2 meses

Bonus Track: Mistah Witch as a simulated worn 78 RPM record

BONUS TRACK Black Chicago poet Fenton Johnson was using Blues Language as early as his 1913...

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The Wraithie's Message

Early 20th Century Afro-American poet Fenton Johnson again shows his range with this Celtic dark...

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