Poetry Meets Music

Write On is happy to continue our collaboration with Midsummer’s Music, Poetry Meets Music. At one concert in each of Midsummer’s series offerings, a poet will read a poem written in response to a piece of music to be performed. Poets were given recordings in advance with no identifying information as to the title, composer, era, etc., and were asked not to look up this information. The result is a poem composed entirely in response to the emotions or memories the music evokes. 

For today’s concert, we are pleased to present poet Kevin Hess. Today’s concert is The Romantic Era of the Schumanns. To order tickets, please visit Midsummer’s Music. 

Kevin James Hess was born in the South, raised in the West, and has now settled in Northern Wisconsin with his love, a psychic kitty, and a star kitten. A lifelong writer, English major, and graduate of the Indigo Lotus School of Intuitive Arts, after a too-long career in IT Kevin is now aligned to where he belongs – among nature, auroras, water, and words.