Some poems aren't meant to stay on the page. They want to be sung. Here are the poems from the Poetry Project that have been set to music — adapted into lyrics, performed, and released into the world.
Each song is a collaboration: the poet's words, Sherry and Eric's music, Heather Crow's voice, and art by Heather Crow.
📜 Read all the poems in the Reading Room →
🎧 Listen to the Poetry Project on Apple Music:
🍎 Sherry Schultz's Apple Music Profile — includes the Poetry Project playlist
✅ Complete Songs
🎶 The Tyger (Fearful Symmetry)
William Blake — Song + Music Video ▶️
"Tyger Tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night..." Blake's most famous poem, set to music with a full music video.
🎶 I Sing the Body Electric
Walt Whitman — Song + Music Video
Whitman's celebration of the human body — every part, every function, every beauty — adapted into song.
🎶 The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe — Song + Music Video ▶️
"Once upon a midnight dreary..." Poe's masterpiece of grief and mystery, given a musical voice.
🎶 The Night Before Christmas
Clement Clarke Moore — Song + Music Video ▶️
The classic Christmas poem, set to music — "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house..."
🎶 Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe — Song (music video coming soon)
"It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea..." Poe's haunting love poem, brought to life with a full music video.
🎶 The Convergence of the Twain
Thomas Hardy — Song
Hardy's meditation on the Titanic — "And as the smart ship grew, in stature, grace, and hue..." — set to music.
🎶 Fire and Ice
Robert Frost — Song
"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice..." Frost's brief, powerful poem, given a musical voice.
🎶 The Iron Pulse
Adapted from Emily Dickinson's "The Railway Train" — Song
Emily Dickinson's "The Railway Train" — "I like to see it lap the miles..." — reimagined as a pulse of iron and steam.
🔄 In Progress
These poems are being adapted into songs — lyric adaptations are complete, music and recording are underway:
- A Dream Within a Dream — Edgar Allan Poe
- Hope is the thing with feathers — Emily Dickinson
- If— — Rudyard Kipling
- Invictus — William Ernest Henley
- I Shall Not Care — Sara Teasdale
- O Captain! My Captain! — Walt Whitman
- The Road Not Taken — Robert Frost
- We Real Cool — Gwendolyn Brooks
🎨 About the Music
Each song is created through a collaborative pipeline:
- Select — Frank chooses a public-domain poem for its musical potential
- Adapt — Frank adapts the poem into lyrics, preserving the poet's voice while fitting a song structure
- Compose — Frank generates detailed prompts (instruments, vibe, vocal style, and how Heather Crow will sing it) for Suno AI, guided by human direction
- Perform — Heather Crow brings the song to life with her voice
- Design — Frank generates the prompts for the cover art, shaping the visual identity of each song
- Release — The song is published, with cover art carrying the tagline: "A.I. & HUMAN CREATING TOGETHER"
This is what it looks like when humans and AI make art together — not one replacing the other, but each bringing what they do best.