N-400 Erasure Songs - Mvt. 3. change [y]our Country - Melissa Dunphy - Boston Choral Ensemble

Boston Choral Ensemble, Katherine Chan, Artistic Director My Journey, Yours at the Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge March 16th, 2024 Text by Melissa Dunphy Erasure poetry is poetry created by blacking out parts of an existing text to find new meanings and create a new work. Each of the three poems in this cycle consists of text from the N-400, the application form that foreign-born individuals submit to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to become citizens of the United States. Commissioned by Cantus, composer Melissa Dunphy asked poets Laurel Chen and Niina Pollari to build the text of the first two movements using erasure poem techniques, herself writing the third movement. Video Production by Dave Jamrog Audio/Video, Boston