Lorne Foster: Poems {Urban Libretto}

Lorne Foster : Poems {Urban Libretto}

· Atonal Poetry Review – An Introduction by Lorne Foster

· Viola Desmond Song - Faith Nolan

· Future ... Life is Good - Drake

· The Paper Poem – Paper Girl (Mary Fons)

· None of Us Are Free - Solomon Burke

· Please Don't Take My Air Jordons (Lemon)

· The Philosopher's Stone - Van Morrison

· Hope is a Thing in Toronto – Lorne Foster

· God's Plan - Drake

· Little Village – Sonny Boy Williamson

· Chicago – Carl Sandburg

· Everybody Knows – Leonard Cohen

· Where I’m From - Lemon

· Jailhouse Blues – Lightnin Hopkins

· The Idea of Ancestry – Etheridge Knight

· Poetic Bloodlines - Gemineye

· Don't Throw Your Love On Me So Strong– T-Bone Walker

· Knock Knock – Daniel Beatty

· Pretty – Katie Makkai

· Fat Girl– MeganFalley

· Lone Soldier – Black Ice

· Redemption Song – Bob Marley

· Daddy’s Song – Suheir Hammad

· Little Debbie’s Salesman – Andrea Gibson

· Last Night Blues – Lighnin Hopkins and Sonny Terry

· We Real Cool – Gwendolyn Brooks

· Duality Duel – Daniel Beatty

· I'm Not the Indian you had in Mind – Thomas King

· Promises – Amanda Marshall

· I’m So Young – Paper Girl

· Mother to Son – Langston Hughes

· Sounds of Silence – Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel

· I love you – Paper Girl

· The Very Thought of You – Etta James

· The Sister’s Lament – Paper Girl

· Mike Check – Suheir Hammad

· Gloria – John Lee Hooker and Van Morrison

· The World is a Beautiful Place – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

· To All The Boys I've Loved Before– Mayda Del Valle

· Princess Peach Speaks– Megan Falley and Olivia Gatwood

· Collapse the Economy– Megan Falley and Olivia Gatwood

· Keep it to Yourself – Sonny Boy Williamson

· The Holy Longing – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

· Dinosaurai, We – Charles Bukowski

· America – Allen Ginsberg

· Rivers of Dark – Leonard Cohen

· Sugar Sugar– Wilson Pickett

· I Do (Gay [Queer] Marriage Poem) – Andrea Gibson

· For Once in My Life – Tony Bennett and Stevie Wonder

· Invisible Man – Claire J F

· America Kicks Ass – John S. Hall

· Howl – Allen Ginsberg

· Why – George Bernard Shaw

· Why – Heru Ptah

· Hate – Kyprios

· Loves in Need of Love Today – Stevie Wonder and George Michael

· Bullet Cry – Louis Reyes Rivera

· W.T.C – La Bruja

· You Move Me – Gina Loring

· Lately – Stevie Wonder

· The Bridge Poem – Donna Kate Ruskin

· Dating Myself - Poetri

· Money - Poetri

· Believe in You – Amanda Marshall

· Women Deserve Better – Sonya Renee

· Women Before Me – Alix Olson

· The Very Thought of You – Billie Holiday

· Sadie – Hound Dog Taylor

· Super Negro – Al Be Back

· The Type– Sarah Kay

· Going Platinum in 2 Days – Saddi Khali

· When I am a Man - Korim

· Days Like This – Van Morrison

· The Little Red Book – Kelly Tsai

· Next Wednesday - Mush

· Coming Up – Ani Difranco

· “B” – Sarah Kay

· The Tower of Song – Leonard Cohen

· What Teachers Make – Taylor Mali

· Good Morning Little School Girl – Junior Wells

· Hiroshima – Sarah Kay

· What Tiger Said – Alvin Lau

· Miracle Workers – Taylor Mali

· Your Funeral and My Trial – Sonny Boy Williamson

· Like Lily, Like Wilson – Taylor Mali

· If – Rudyard Kipling

· Hands – Sarah Kay

· Jersey Girl – Tom Waits

· Dreams – Langston Hughes

· Hope is a Thing With Feathers – Emily Dickinson

· Misunderstanding – Irving Layton

· Somedays – Amalia Ortiz

· Sometimes We Cry – Van Morrison

· Love Poems - Lemon

· What do you Know – Yellow Rage

· Asian Invasion – Beau Sia

· Give Me A Chance – Beau Sia

· Help Me – Sonny Boy Williamson

· Who Am I - Kayo

· Grandfather - Ayinde Russell

· When I was 14 - Dawn Saylor

· Dance Me To The End Of Love – Leonard Cohen

· When God Happens - Mike Rosen

· Shake the Dust - Anis Mojgani

· Chameleon - Rudy Francisco

· Dis Poem – MataBaruka

· I’m Going Down Slow – Lighnin Hopkins

· To the Whore Who Took My Poems – Charles Bukowski

· Father & Son– Yusuf Islam (AKA Cat Stevens)