Announced November 15th, 2002!

Chosen from the 30 semi-finalists, here are the winning songs!
These songs will be featured on
Songs Inspired By Literature - Chapter Two
(order one today!)
along with tracks donated by
Tom Waits, David Bowie, Steve Earle,
Rosanne Cash, Vicki Randle (of the "Tonight Show") and more TBA.
Expect our release in March 2003.

We are deeply grateful
to all of the artists who entered this year.

And the winners are....

Songwriter (s)
State
Song Title
Source
Author
Ana Porter
CA
Hunger
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Eliot
Dee Adams *
NY
Pennsylvania
Songmaster
Orson Scott Card
Eileen Laverty
Saskatoon CN
Tread Softly
Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
W.B. Yeats
Freddie Feldman & Gaskit
IL
Peel This Away
Night
Elie Wiesel
Ira Marlowe
CA
The Wish
Faust
Goethe
Larry Kenneth Potts
CA
The Ballad of Poker Alice
Nothing Like It In The World
Stephen E. Ambrose
Marta Gomez
MA
Paula Ausente
Paula
Isabel Allende
Michelle Bloom
CA
Listen (The Silences)
Raids on the Unspeakable
Thomas Merton
Patti Witten
NY
Goin Back To Moline
Mr. White's Confession
Robert Clark
Stephanie Riggio
CA
Voice Inside (Song of Siddhartha)
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse

* Our grand prize winner!

Look at last year's winners!