Songs Without Music

"Songs Without Music" contains two collections of poetry: My City Journal and City Poems. Beatnik-inspired journal entries comprise My City Journal, while City Poems contains muse-based pieces of writing. Both volumes were written within the first year of the author's move to Manhattan for his graduate studies. This is the first book in a continuing series of poetic projects by the twenty-three-year-old pianist and writer, Curtis Serafin.

Curtis Serafin began piano lessons at age six in his hometown of New Windsor, Maryland. During high school, he studied under Marian Hahn through the Peabody Precollege program in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2013, Curtis earned scholarships to study piano performance with Karen Ann Krieger at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music. Curtis is currently a first-year graduate student of Warren Jones at the Manhattan School of Music. In his spare time, Curtis is completing the composition of a new song set for baritone and piano, which draws from the published poems of Frank O'Hara. He has also published a book of his own poetry, Songs Without Music. In his spare time, Curtis listens to lots of songs that have music, like Frankie Valli, Billy Joel, and Mac DeMarco.