Poetry in Song
Carl Solomon, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs
National Poetry Month is here
Shift your brain into high gear
Ponder a song that was ere a poem
Plenty to choose, I'm sure you know 'em
In the comments have them arrayed
After nine you'll hear some played
UPDATE Today's set:
Laura Mvula "Phenomenal Woman"
Maya Angelou "Phenomenal Woman"
Rufus Wainwright, Florence Welch "When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes (Sonnet 29)"
William Shakespeare "When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes"
Simon & Garfunkel "Richard Cory"
Edwin Arlington Robinson "Richard Cory"
Sinéad O'Connor "I Am Stretched on Your Grave"
Anonymous "Táim sínte ar do thuama"
Sponsored by the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT, featuring "Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist." brucemuseum.org.
