So cool: ACM Chicago has commissioned composers and musicians to set my poems to music.
UPDATE: Here’s a writeup from the The Columbia Chronicle.
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Amy E. Hall says
VERY cool!
Mike Rohde says
Awesome!
Christopher says
I’m one of the composers on the Newspaper Blackout Poems concert; it was very well attended, and all the songs were well received by the audience. Thank you for sharing your craft with some fellow artists!
Austin Kleon says
Thanks, Christopher! Very happy to hear it, can’t wait to see/hear some of the results.
Austin Kleon says
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