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Tayloe Skelton reads a poem he wrote after 9/11.

Peter Genet was working across from the WTC and recalls leaving a message for his family on 9/11.

Chicago poet Mary Krane Derr composed a multimedia interfaith requiem from broadcasts, songs, and phone calls. It's called For the Living and the Dead.

Pennsylvanian Paul LaBelle wrote a song called Hero's Legacy to salute the heros of 9/11 and raise money.

Floridian Frances Key, director of the International Peace Performers children's chorus, recommends that her group sing for peace and in honor of 9/11. The Florida-based, multi-cultural chorus includes both refugee and American children.

Pamela Bowl's family moved to New York from Canada some time ago and has celebrated two important events at the WTC--she feels they provide bookend stories for her family. Her son's bar mitzvah was held there in 1978. And on November 11, 2000, when…

Colorado songwriter Lynn Skinner wrote Voices from the Sky in response to 9/11.

Austin firefighter Peter Teliha sent a care package and poem to his company's sister station in NYC, Ladder 18.

Poet Jill Breckenridge reads her work Contour Line Drawing. She was at a drawing class at the time of the attacks, and her son lives in NYC.

Agnes Crow of Virginia sings a haunting wail in response to the events of September 11.

Myrna Annette was flying from France to the United States on 9/11 and was shocked when the pilot said U.S. airspace was closed.

Carlos Quinteros made a music video using footage from his trip to NYC in 1999 to express what he feels about the city.

Elizabeth Rich reads a story about watching the towers being built while visiting her grandma in New Jersey. The towers were the mountains of her childhood.

Video producer Marshall Saunders talks about the fire safety video he made at the WTC after the 1993 bombing.

Liz Wallerstein's husband is a songwriter. She reads from his work, And You Want Me to Sing a Song, written October 19, 2001.

Tom Munyon a member of the Seraphim Music chorus in Seattle, sang the Fauré Requiem at a memorial service and found the performance especially moving.

Californian Michael Moss plays the message from his brother in New York that woke him on the morning of September 11.

Seattle resident Greg McFarlen recalls watching the news on September 11, but the only sound he remembers is the noise of his coffee cup dropping to the floor.

Composer Carl Seale wrote a procession for high school bands in the summer of 2001. After 9/11, he titled it The Procession of Souls.

New Jersey mom Carolyn Holl brought her twin sons to the top of the WTC and remembers hearing another mother telling her kids not to look at boring New Jersey but to look at cool Brooklyn instead . . .