Frank’s poems have been adapted to film, art song, and electroacoustic works, and she has collaborated with composers on original works, including an in-progress an opera with composer Eric Malmquist and Ariana Strahl. You can watch and listen to a few samples below.
“Caught,” from The Spokes of Venus adapted into a Motionpoems film here.
“Lincoln Park,” written for composer Eric Malmquist as part of Open, Clear, and Free for Constellation Men’s Chorus and performed at the Lincoln Park Conservatory and parks across Chicago.
“Song of the Rattling Pipe,” from Little Murders Everywhere. Composer Eric Malmquist. Megan Ihnen, Michael Hall:
“Automaton Monk,” from Oh You Robot Saints!, composer Anna Rubin:
“For the Sin of Bossiness,” from Little Murders Everywhere. Composer Eric Malmquist for La Caccina women’s vocal ensemble:
“Descartes’ Daughter” from Oh You Robot Saints!,and “The Mothers,” from Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country. Composer Mara Gibson:
“Ghazal:: Unbound,” a sound installation collaboration with composer Aaron Stepp as joint fellows at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and exhibited as part of “Axis,” a thirteen artist show at Brentwood Gallery, Baltimore, MD in 2014.
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.