Tekstforfatter: Langston Hughes, June Jordan, Walt Whitman, E.E. Cummings, Anne Bradstreet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gertrude Stein, Conrad Aiken, Gregory Nunzio Corso, Frank O'Hara, Julia de Burgos, Edgar Allan Poe
Komponist: Leonard Bernstein