Collaborations

Recent:

June 2024, Chicago, IL. Lincoln Park Conservatory and additional Chicago sites. Premiere of composer Eric Malmquist’s work “Open, Clear, and Free,” including my commissioned piece on the history of Lincoln Park, was performed by the Constellation Men’s Ensemble.

May 2023, Chicago, IL. Collaborative Arts Institute Spring Lieder Lounge The world premiere of a song cycle by composer Eric Malmquist comprised of five poems from Oh You Robot Saints! was performed by Ariana Strahl, Shannon McGinnis, and two-time GRAMMY® award nominee Laura Strickling.

April 3, 2023, Baton Rouge, LA. LSU College of Music and Dramatic Arts Guest Artist Recital. LSU student composers set a dozen works based on my poems, which were performed by LSU music students.

From the Archives:

Film: Watch “Caught” from The Spokes of Venus, made into a Motionpoems film here.

Michael Hall and Megan Ihnen perform composer Eric Malmquist‘s setting of the poem “Song of the Rattling Pipe” from Little Murders Everywhere.

Composer Eric Malmquist’s setting of For the Sin of Bossiness (from Little Murders Everywhere) for La Caccina women’s vocal ensemble.

Composer Mara Gibson’s Galatea’s Dream includes poems from Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country and Oh You Robot Saints!

Pandemic virtual collaboration: with composer Eric Malmquist and Soprano Ariana Stahl, 2020.

Pandemic Virtual Collaboration: Composer Joseph Dangerfield‘s setting of the title poem of The Spokes of Venus. Featuring Megan Ihnen. 2020.

“Ars Poetica” written for composer Brian Baxter.

Aaron Stepp‘s setting of sections of the sequence “Junkyard Temples.”

Composer Aaron Stepp’s Diptych, a setting of poems from Little Murders Everywhere.

Collaboration with composer Aaron Stepp, created as joint fellows at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. (Created for multi-speaker installation.)

Visit Memorious: a journal of new verse & fiction to listen to works created by the art song contest Frank co-produced with composer Eric Malmquist, for which there were live performances at such places as the Poetry Foundation in Chicago and the University of Nottingham.