No Women Died Today
“Where the hell are the women?” – Ellen Kaye
Maxfield Parrish Sky
“For all the past beloved summer days and nights and all the radiant ones yet to come.” – Ellen Kaye
Your Oyster
“…the sense of no clocks, endless days, just rolling on forever in a blissful state.” – Ellen Kaye
Elegy
“In memory of Kim Tsang, my son Ian’s father.” – Ellen Kaye
My Outside Heart
“For my son Ian.” -Ellen Kaye
Haunted Hart
“Haunted Hart is about a man I loved when I lived on Hart Island in 1974…these are my memories of him. And the ghosts of Potter’s Field.”-Ellen Kaye
River Styx
“River Styx brings my time in Phoenix House on Hart Island to life. I was fourteen when I got there…I’m tackling my own story, the stories of abandoned people, of what it’s like to be left behind.” – Ellen Kaye
Renegade
“it was America in 1974. Not like anything else.” -Ellen Kaye
A Manhattan Fairy Tale
“I started telling this story a long time ago. For now I’ll let the song say it all.” -Ellen Kaye
The RTR
“History in a nutshell told by a nightclub singer, not an historian.” -Ellen Kaye
