Continuing in our series this Black History Month focusing on the work of Jamaican-American poet Claude McKay. Here's a sonnet of his published The Liberator magazine in 1921, now performed with a new musical accompaniment.

Long-time followers of this Project may remember that I've proposed something I call "The Sandburg Test:" does any substantial collection of the a poet's work include at least one poem dealing with the world of work? McKay tests positive with poems like this one.

The Parlando Project takes various words (mostly literary poetry) and combines them with original music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinaitons, and you can hear any of them and read about our encounters with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org