Jazz Hybrid Presents: An Evening of Poetry & Music.
Come listen to poets reading together, and musicians playing together, and poets and musicians jamming together.
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 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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Kim Addonizio is the author of over a dozen books of prose and poetry, most recently Now We’re Getting Somewhere (Poems, W.W. Norton) and an essay collection, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin). Her work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships, and other awards. Her forthcoming collection of poetry from Norton is Exit Opera. She lives in Oakland, CA.
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Danny Caron cut his teeth on the Crawfish circuit playing with singer-pianist Marcia Ball. He then moved to Lafayette, LA and worked for a year with Zydeco king Clifton Chenier and his Red Hot Louisiana Band with whom he recorded the Grammy Award winning Album, “I’m Here” in 1980. Relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1981 he is credited with reviving the career of the legendary singer and pianist Charles Brown. Danny served as guitarist and musical director for Charles Brown from 1987 until Brown’s death in 1999. He has played on numerous CDs and sessions with Charles Brown, Clifton Chenier, Bonnie Raitt, John Lee Hooker, Van Morrison, Ruth Brown, Etta Jones, Dr. John, and many others. His current projects include working on the new Taj Majal recording and an album of Spanish songs “Cantos Mi Corazon” featuring vocalist Marina Crouse.
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Diamond Forde's debut collection, Mother Body, is the winner of the 2019 Saturnalia Poetry Prize. She has received numerous awards and prizes, including the Pink Poetry Prize, the Furious Flower Poetry Prize, and CLA's Margaret Walker Memorial Prize, and placed in the Frontier Poetry's New Poets Award.
She is a Callaloo and Tin House fellow, whose work has appeared in Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter, NELLE, Tupelo Quarterly and more. Diamond serves as the assistant editor of Southeast Review, and the fiction editor for Nat. Brut.