It's a Caketrain

One of my ambitions is to write music to accompany spoken word poetry.

Generally however, I am far too preoccupied to find the time/space to attend poetry readings or meet poets.

Eventually a member of Caketrain contacted me for permission to use my music to set to the poem “Social Graces,” written and read by Robert Krut.

About Caketrain:

Caketrain is a literary journal and press based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Our interest is in bringing you, reader, the very best in contemporary creative writing, full stop. Our goals are for each issue of our journal to submerge you in a birthing tank for gelatinous language monsters, young masses of tentacular foci undulating as directed (in all, at once) by our eclectic stable of contributors; for each new book to seduce and ensnare you, sometimes intangibly, always undeniably; and for you, reader, to be able to draw at least one passage from our banks that prods your mind with a precision and power that feels as if it was written for your eyes alone.

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The end result was this podcast. The poem in question is 14 minutes into the podcast. Thanks to the people at Caketrain, I enjoy their beautiful journal.

Image:
N.M. Courtright
“But I’m Not a Chair”
from Caketrain Issue 03
Sourced from Caketrain website: www.caketrain.org