BOTANY FOR THE GODS - poetry by Janet Joyner (2016)
Soprano & piano
- Cassandra
- Botany for the Gods
- Rain Song (Homage to Paul Verlaine)
- Decoherence as My Way Out of the Quantum Mechanics of Underpants
- In a Goolagong Bog
- Lift Off
- composed for Christine Graham
BLACK DAY, BRIGHT - poetry by Louise Labé, translation by Willis Barnstone (2013)
Contralto & piano (6'21")
- Sonnet XIV Although I Cry (3'54")
- Sonnet XV To Honor the Return of Sparkling Sun (2'27")
- composed for Rehanna Thelwell
I SPILL MY SOUL - poetry by E.E. Cummings (2009)
Soprano & piano
- Thy fingers make early flowers of all things (2'05")
- this is the garden; colors come and go, (5'30")
- (sitting in a tree--) (1'40")
- O Thou to whom the musical white spring (2'17")
COWBOY DREAMS - traditional texts (2013)
Tenor or high baritone & piano (8'15")
- The Cowboy's Dream (3'30")
- The Pecos Stream (2'35")
- The Big Corral (2'10)
FOUR SONGS OF THE THE HEART- poetry by Kathleen Raine (2009)
Mezzo-soprano & piano (12')
- Lament
- Nocturn
- Purify
- The Healing Spring
FOUR SONNETS BY PABLO NERUDA, SET 1- poetry in the English translations by Stephen Tapscott (2006)
Soprano or Mezzo-soprano & piano (12')
- Sonnet XVII: from Manana (Morning) I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz
- Sonnet XLV: from Mediodia (Afternoon) Don't go far off, not even for a day
- Sonnet LVII: Tarde (Evening) They're liars, those who say I lost the moon
- Sonnet LXXXIX: from Noche (Night) When I die, I want your hands on my eyes
- commissioned by Arlene Shrut
FOUR SONNETS BY PABLO NERUDA, SET 2- poetry in the English translations by Stephen Tapscott (2008)
Soprano or mezzo-soprano & piano (14')
- Sonnet VIII: from Manana (Morning) If your eyes were not the color of the moon
- Sonnet XXXV: from Mediodia (Afternoon) Your hand flew from my eyes into the day
- Sonnet LXX: Tarde (Evening) Maybe—though I do not bleed—I am wounded
- Sonnet LXXXI: from Noche (Night) And now you’re mine. Rest with your dream into my dream
- commissioned by Eileen Strempel and Sylvie Beaudette
QUATRE MÉLODIES DE RONSARD- poetry by Ronsard (2007)
Baritone or mezzo-soprano & piano (11')
- Quand je te vois, seule…
- Bonjour, mon coeur
- À sa guitare
- Je suis homme, né pour mourir
- dedicated to Carol Kimball
NIGHT DREAMS- poetry by Margaret Atwood (2006)
Soprano or mezzo-soprano & piano (17')
- Night Poem
- Siren Song
- Variations on the Word Sleep
- Flying Inside Your Own Body
- commissioned by Eileen Strempel and Sylvie Beaudette
AWAKE ON A SPRING NIGHT- poetry by Betty Andrews (1994)
Soprano or mezzo-soprano & piano (12')
- When I Was Young
- The Time Comes
- New Grass
- Awake On A Spring Night
- The Shape of Laughter
THE SECRET HISTORY OF WATER- poetry by Silvia Curbelo (2003)
Soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor or baritone & piano
- The Blackbirds Take Over the Sky (3'56")
- The Secret History of Water (4'40")
- The Death of the Tango (4'03")
- The Lake Has Swallowed the Whole Sky (4'37")
- Drinking Song (3'54")
- For All The Goodbyes (4'37")
- Dreaming Horse (2'15")
- The Room Was A Pond (4'04")
- I’m in love, I’m floating (3'25")
- Last Call (5'10")
- Janis Joplin (3'24")
- Some nights you crank up the car radio and just drive (5'08")
- The Simple Geography of Leaving (4'26")
- Spontaneous Human Combustion (2'20")
THREE SONGS FOR BASS-BARITONE- poetry by Thomas Carew, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and anon. (2012)
Bass-baritone & piano (12')
- Celia Singing (5'30")
- Song and Music (4'15")
- A Short History of Medicine (2'00")
- composed for Toby Kidd
TRES CANÇÕES- Portuguese poetry by Cassiano Ricardo, João Cabral de Melo Neto & Vinicíus de Morales (2006)
Tenor or soprano & piano (8')
- Canto Da Juriti
- Poema
- Soneto De Separaçao
- Composed for Ricardo Pereira
DE AMOR OSCURO- Spanish poetry by Federico Alarcón (2004)
Tenor or soprano & piano (5')
- Me diste una canasta de manzanas
- Desde que conoci en el camino
- Composed for Ricardo Pereira