• Contact
  • SPONSORS
  • Cummings at Silver Lake Weekend July 2015
  • Celebration Sites
    • Frank Lyman’s place
    • Hurricane Point
    • Jess Shackford’s farm
    • Joy Farm
    • Madison Church
    • Madison Historical Society
    • Memorial Lighthouse
    • Sam Ward’s Farm
  • Silver Lake Folk
    • Frank Lyman
    • Minnie Frost
    • Sam Ward
    • The Shackfords
  • ADVANCED TICKET RESERVATION FORM

Cummings at Silver Lake

~ A weekend of art & music

Cummings at Silver Lake

Tag Archives: Billy Collins

Some E.E. Cummings must be sung

25 Saturday Apr 2015

Posted by FOML in EE Cummings, Music, Poetry

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Billy Collins, Natalie Merchant

E.E. Cummings, the poet of the “little i”, was also a poet of the EYE.

According to Billy Collins, himself a poet, Cummings broke “down words into syllables and letters”, employed eccentric punctuation”, and indulged “in all kinds of print-based shenanigans”.

Famously, Cummings wrote, “not all my poems are to be read aloud-some are to be seen and not heard.”

And, some were clearly must be sung, as Natalie Merchant sings maggie and millie and molly and may.

Cummings at Silver Lake WeekendJuly 10, 2015
What an incredible E.E. Cummings at Silver Lake Weekend! Thanks to all who came and supported the Friends of Madison Library.

Archives

  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015

Categories

Follow Cummings at Silver Lake on WordPress.com

Blog at WordPress.com.