The radically short modernist American poem set to an equally short twelve-tone composition. To read more about the poem, how it's regarded, the inspiration for the music, and to access other pieces combining various words with various music, go to frankhudson.org

A song telling about how Hollywood's post WWII distress lead to Maila Nurmi/Vampira's break into television as the first late-night "Horror Host." For more about this and other audio pieces combining various words with various music go to frankhudson.org

A song looking at the atomic fears as Maila Nurmi creates her Vampira persona for a 1953 Halloween party in Los Angeles. For more about this and other audio pieces combining various words with various music, go to frankhudson.org

The first song in a song-cycle about Maila Nurmi who created the innovative horror persona Vampira in the 50s. In this piece, Nurmi considers contrasting herself to Aimee Semple McPherson, a pop-evangelist and media figure in 20th Century LA. For more on this and other combing various words with various music go to frankhudson.org

A spare musical piece with drums, fretless bass, Telecaster and synth with words from Carl Sandburg's "Cornhuskers" collection celebrating rural images in contrast to his well-known Chicago poems. For more about this and similar pieces, go to frankhudson.org

Wallace Stevens famous short poem confounds our expectations with his somewhat perverse and impish wit. This performance is set to music using acoustic guitar, cello, and drums. For more about this and other combinations of various words with various music go to frankhudson.org

A British Isles folk-legend about blackberries, St. Michael, and Satan gets a modern electronic/orchestra setting. For more information about this and other pieces combining various words with various music go to www.frankhudson.org

Thomas Hardy's visit, in a mix of memory and reality, to a long-ago childhood house, a mental voyage many of us can do, assuming we can ride out the emotional waves. Given the fires, floods, earthquakes and winds of the past couple of months across our continent, some will be being doing this visit now wholly in memory. For more on this and similar musical pieces visit frankhudson.org

Today's episode is a retelling of a Lord Dunsay story from 1915. The adaptation and vocal performance is by Dave Moore with music performed by the LYL Band.

Lord Dunsay is one of those writers who had a long, successful career, but who now gets mentioned more as an inspiration, than read as a writer. Everyone from Tolkien to Gaiman has tipped their hat to Dunsay.

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F. S. Flint was a poor Victorian schoolboy who had to leave school at 13, yet 10 years later he finds a name for a group of young London poets: "Imagists," and he helps start a revolution that leads to modern English poetry. A selection of 3 of his short poems are performed with strings and sitar in this episode. For more, see frankhudson.org