Songfest includes settings of these poems: • "To the Poem" (
Frank O'Hara) – sextet • "The Pennycandystore Beyond the El" (
Lawrence Ferlinghetti) – baritone solo • "A Julia de Burgos" (
Julia de Burgos) – soprano solo • "To What You Said" (
Walt Whitman) – solo • "I, Too, Sing America" (
Langston Hughes) / "Okay 'Negroes' " (
June Jordan) – duet • "To My Dear and Loving Husband" (
Anne Bradstreet) – trio • "Storyette H. M." (
Gertrude Stein) – duet • "if you can't eat you got to" (
e.e. cummings) – sextet • "Music I Heard with You" (
Conrad Aiken) – solo • "Zizi's Lament" (
Gregory Corso) – solo • "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" (
Edna St. Vincent Millay) – solo • "Israfel" (
Edgar Allan Poe) – sextet ==Instrumentation==