In The Round: A Jazz Poetry Experience

Jazz and Poetry come together in an improvisational spoken word and musical performance. For 90 minutes, musicians will perform a mixture of jazz and R&B while local poets bring prepared and improvised slam poetry as an instrument and an interlude.

 

Poets include: Joseph M. Jablonkski (Walking Mall Poet and With Ink: Typewriter poets), Wayne David Hubbard (author of Mobius: Meditation on Home and Throes of a Broken Clockwork Universe) and many more.

MC: Irina Price

Doors open: 7pm

Show Starts: 7:30pm

This collaborative performance will happen in-the-round at the Drum Orpheum Rehearsal Hall, owned and operated by jazz drummer, Daniel Kelly II.

Refreshments will be available for purchase.

Admission Fee: $15

Event contact information or website: www.drumorpheum.com

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