Composers: Virgil Thomson; Amy Lowell, Poet; Georges Hugnet, Poet; Gertrude Stein, Poet; William Blake, Poet; Jean Racine, Poet; Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Poet; Jean de la Fontaine, Poet; Jasper Fisher, Poet; John Webster, Poet; William Shakespeare, Poet; John Donne, Poet; Thomas Heywood, Poet; Anon., Poet; John Woodcock Graves, Poet; Francis Kynaston, Poet; Matthew Arnold, Poet; Richard Crashaw, Poet; Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Poet; Isaac Watts, Poet; Marianne Moore, Poet; Edward Lear, Poet; Alfred Kreymborg, Poet; Frank O'Hara, Poet; Thomas Campion, Poet; Jack Larson, Poet; Reyna Rivas, Poet; Kenneth Koch, Poet

Performers: William Hite, tenor; Linda Osborn, piano; Lynne McMurtry, contralto; Alison d'Amato, piano; Sarah Pelletier, soprano; Aaron Engebreth, baritone; John McDonald, percussion