joo
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Welcome to Season 562 - Poetry in Song!
This week is all about poetry.
I want -
1. Songs that are poems set to music
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_based_on_poems
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_based_on_poems
- https://www.thoughtco.com/classic-poems-set-to-music-p2-2725524
Richard Buckner's album The Hill is based on Edgar Lee Masters's The Spoon River Anthology
(I love this album)
Various readings and music https://www.allmusic.com/style/poetry-ma0000011952/albums
Jack Kerouac and jazz https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW-H2ioPqHAd0X3FsNWn-R4ObAavUjO4i
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW-H2ioPqHAd0X3FsNWn-R4ObAavUjO4i
A few I found
E. E. Cummings's [i Carry Your Heart With Me(i Carry It In]
by Michael Hedges
by our own seasonista, Alan Thornton
my cover(with fellow seasonista Kimi) of Alan's E.E. Cummings song
E. E. Cummings's Maggie & Milly & Molly & May
by Natalie Merchant
more on the internet for you to discover.....
Or you can set poems to music yourself!
Any poem is fine, although I would love to hear poems by Wallace Stevens, Philip Larkin, Anne Sexton and Raymond Carver set to music!
I love SPOKEN WORD music. So maybe try reading a poem to some uke-ing this week, if that sounds fun to try out?
2. Songs inspired by a poet or his/her poetry, or mention a poet's name
Lou Reed's album The Raven, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem
(I love this album)
“El Dorado” is Michael Hurley's musical interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1849 poem of the same name.
Berni Armstrong's Hope is that Thing with Feathers (Emily Dickinson)
Some songs inspired by Sylvia Plath
20 Songs Inspired By Sylvia Plath (a mixtape) | musicforants.com | a tumblelog about music, etc.
Vic Chesnutt's Wallace Stevens (I love Vic Chesnutt's songs)
10,000 Maniacs' Hey Jack Kerouac
Berni has a playlist of poetry-inspired songs.
Rob has played many songs inspired by or based on poems. I look forward to listening to them again.
Jon has a channel of his poems but it is not up at the moment.
I have set quite a number of poems to songs too.
3. Songs with excerpts of a (famous)poem in the lyric
Grand Salvo's People I Know Die has a line from a Dylan Thomas's poem (I love this song)
4. You to bring original songs that fulfil 2 and 3.
You may also pen your own haiku and turn them into songs
some 1 minute haiku set to songlets by Seasonistas for inspiration
5. You to play any song(s) written by the musicians in the link below.
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/musicians-who-are-poets-lyrics/
You are welcomed to play any song by any musician whose lyrics you consider poetic.
The usual rules apply.
No song limits.
Please comment on each other's videos on YouTube.
Prize - original cartoon/portrait of the winner drawn and painted by me.
I would love for you to tell me a little bit about your uke in your video - who made it, the wood, what strings, etc... Extra points for anyone who does this, and for anyone who comments on videos.
New seasonistas most welcome.
Have fun!
PLAYLIST
This week is all about poetry.
I want -
1. Songs that are poems set to music
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_based_on_poems
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_based_on_poems
- https://www.thoughtco.com/classic-poems-set-to-music-p2-2725524
Richard Buckner's album The Hill is based on Edgar Lee Masters's The Spoon River Anthology
(I love this album)
Various readings and music https://www.allmusic.com/style/poetry-ma0000011952/albums
Jack Kerouac and jazz https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW-H2ioPqHAd0X3FsNWn-R4ObAavUjO4i
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW-H2ioPqHAd0X3FsNWn-R4ObAavUjO4i
A few I found
E. E. Cummings's [i Carry Your Heart With Me(i Carry It In]
by Michael Hedges
by our own seasonista, Alan Thornton
my cover(with fellow seasonista Kimi) of Alan's E.E. Cummings song
E. E. Cummings's Maggie & Milly & Molly & May
by Natalie Merchant
more on the internet for you to discover.....
Or you can set poems to music yourself!
Any poem is fine, although I would love to hear poems by Wallace Stevens, Philip Larkin, Anne Sexton and Raymond Carver set to music!
I love SPOKEN WORD music. So maybe try reading a poem to some uke-ing this week, if that sounds fun to try out?
2. Songs inspired by a poet or his/her poetry, or mention a poet's name
Lou Reed's album The Raven, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem
(I love this album)
“El Dorado” is Michael Hurley's musical interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1849 poem of the same name.
Berni Armstrong's Hope is that Thing with Feathers (Emily Dickinson)
Some songs inspired by Sylvia Plath
20 Songs Inspired By Sylvia Plath (a mixtape) | musicforants.com | a tumblelog about music, etc.
Vic Chesnutt's Wallace Stevens (I love Vic Chesnutt's songs)
10,000 Maniacs' Hey Jack Kerouac
Berni has a playlist of poetry-inspired songs.
Rob has played many songs inspired by or based on poems. I look forward to listening to them again.
Jon has a channel of his poems but it is not up at the moment.
I have set quite a number of poems to songs too.
3. Songs with excerpts of a (famous)poem in the lyric
Grand Salvo's People I Know Die has a line from a Dylan Thomas's poem (I love this song)
4. You to bring original songs that fulfil 2 and 3.
You may also pen your own haiku and turn them into songs
some 1 minute haiku set to songlets by Seasonistas for inspiration
5. You to play any song(s) written by the musicians in the link below.
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/musicians-who-are-poets-lyrics/
You are welcomed to play any song by any musician whose lyrics you consider poetic.
The usual rules apply.
No song limits.
Please comment on each other's videos on YouTube.
Prize - original cartoon/portrait of the winner drawn and painted by me.
I would love for you to tell me a little bit about your uke in your video - who made it, the wood, what strings, etc... Extra points for anyone who does this, and for anyone who comments on videos.
New seasonistas most welcome.
Have fun!
PLAYLIST
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