Jazz Hybrid Presents: An Evening of Poetry & Music.
Poets. Musicians. One memorable night.
It goes without saying that musicians collaborate with one another. It’s baked into the 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.
FEATURING…
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Michael Hettich’s most recent book of poetry, The Halo of Bees: New and Selected Poems, 1990-2022 was published in May, 2023, by Press 53. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared widely. His honors include several Individual Artist Fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, The Tampa Review Prize in Poetry, a Florida Book Award, and the Lena M. Shull Book Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society. He lives in Black Mountain.
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Richard Jackson is the author of 17 books of poetry (including The Heart as Framed: New and Select Poems) and 12 books of essays, interviews, translations, editions and anthologies. Winner of Guggenheim, Fulbright, NEA. NEH, and Witter Bynner Fellowships, he has also edited 32 chapbooks from eastern European poets. He is Distinguished Emeritus Professor at UTC and founder of the Meacham Writers’ Workshops.
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Kris Gruda is an avant-garde guitarist, sound experimenter, and songwriter based in western North Carolina. He plays in solo and group contexts on electric or acoustic with or without electronics. His guitar-in-car album Plays for You was released on Palilalia Records in 2023.