American composers and American poets, including music by Elliot Carter, William Schuman, Aaron Copland, Robert Applebaum, Eric Whitacre, and Elliot Levine, as well as a world premiere by New York composer Susan Kander, featuring the poetry of William Carlos Williams. Other poets on the program include Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Walt Whitman, Genevieve Taggard, Langston Hughes, and e.e. cummings.