It goes without saying that musicians collaborate with one another. It’s baked into the process. But one doesn’t often think of poets as collaborators. However, despite their solitary composition process, poets don’t work in total isolation. Often a variety of relationships support, inspire, and feed their creative process. Collaborators work on projects together. Mentors guide younger or less experienced writers, who in turn refresh the energy and vision of their teachers. Friends share their work with one another. But also: mothers and sons become each other’s editors, life partners intertwine their life and work, siblings participate in each other’s artistic process. Poetry is often in conversations with music, as well. Poets turn to music for inspiration, recite their work with musical accompaniment, or take music as their subject; likewise, musicians write lyrics, embrace spoken word collaboration, and turn to literary works for inspiration.
In honor of these complex and revitalizing truths, Jazz Hybrid Presents an Evening Conversation of Poetry & Music will serve as a showcase for regional and national poets and musicians, encouraging collaboration and hybrid forms and the relationships that sustain and nurture creative communities.
Come and listen to poets reading together, and musicians playing together, and poets and musicians jamming together.
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Featuring…
Poetry by…
Mildred Barya
Nickole Brown
Sebastian Matthews
Marie Harris
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Music by…
M Hurley & Linda Shew Wolf