Poetry

That’s Tahkus Ekedal singing the first verse of Ted Arnold’s setting of Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” from the CD “The Days Gone By, Songs of the American Poets.”

That’s Dawn Upshaw and Bill Crofut on the guitar with his musical setting of “In Just,” one of the best-known poems by the American poet, e. e. cummings.

You’re hearing the first part of the Emily Dickenson poem, “Hope is the Thing With Feathers,” sung by Tahkus Ekedal and Amy Deegan from a collection of well-known 19th and early 20th century American poems for young people that have been set to music by Ted Jacobs and others.