Resounding Verse

Have you ever felt as though a single moment—gazing into someone's eyes, listening to a passage of music, looking at a l... Read more

Arthur Symons's poem captures a lazy June afternoon, with a fountain burbling and the moon hanging in the sky, waiting f... Read more

The Haitian-American composer Nathalie Joachim transforms a Haitian hymn, and in so doing creates a multi-layered tapest... Read more

Connie Converse was one of the first singer-songwriters, an uncommon talent who predated Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. But sh... Read more

We know very little about the German composer Marie von Kehler (1822–1882), who served as a "lady in waiting" to a princ... Read more

Carolyn Forché's 46-page poem "On Earth" forms the basis for a song cycle called The Blue Hour, which was composed by fi... Read more

Francis Jammes's poem depicts two lovers who sit on a bench, alone together under the shade of overhanging branches. But... Read more

Thomas Walsh's poem and Mary Turner Salter's setting of it capture the moment between day and night—and the desire to li... Read more

Nathaniel Bellows’ poem and Sarah Kirkland Snider's haunting setting of it—from her song cycle Unremembered—revisit the ... Read more

Anne Carson's poem and Caroline Shaw's mesmerizing setting of it meditate on the feeling of being in and out of time.The... Read more