From all of these things emerged, Greg’s, Nathaniel’s, and I new collaboration, Mother of Exiles. They asked me to compose a new art song using Emma Lazarus’s poem The New Colossus. When they asked me to do this, I honestly felt small and felt chills go down my spine. Lazarus’s poem is a titan in USA’s literature history. For the sake of anything divine, part of the poem is chiseled in the Statue of Liberty! I was “shooketh.”