Mara Rosenbloom & Flyways
Jazz Poetry Month - Mara Rosenbloom & Flyways ft. Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Roy Guzmán, & Toi Derricotte at Alphabet City / City of Asylum, North Side
Mara Rosenbloom & Flyways:
Mara Rosenbloom (piano)
Anaïs Maviel (voice & surdo drum)
Sean Conly (bass)
Pianist, composer, & bandleader Mara Rosenbloom has been called “a whole hearted poet of the piano,” – she is a builder & a synthesist; a fiercely lyrical composer & improviser (All About Jazz). Flyways, features 2019 Van Lier Fellowship winner Anaïs Maviel (voice & surdo drum) & in demand bassist Sean Conly.
Featured Poets:
Toi Derricotte is the author of I: New and Selected Poems and five previous poetry collections: The Undertaker’s Daughter; The Empress of the Death House; Natural Birth; Captivity; and Tender, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. Derricotte is cofounder of Cave Canem, professor emerita at the University of Pittsburgh, and a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Natalie Scenters-Zapico is from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, U.S.A., and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, México. Her poems have appeared in a wide range of anthologies and literary magazines including Best American Poetry 2015, POETRY, Tin House, Kenyon Review, and more. Currently, she holds fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and CantoMundo. She is a Professor of Literature at Bennington College and a recipient of the 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.
Roy G. Guzmán is a Honduran poet whose first collection is coming out from Graywolf Press on May 5, 2020. Raised in Miami, Florida, Roy is the recipient of a 2019 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2017, they were named a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Their work has been included in the Best New Poets 2017 anthology, guest-edited by Natalie Diaz, and Best of the Net 2017, guest-edited by Eduardo C. Corral.
Corrine Jasmin is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and writer currently based in Pittsburgh, PA. Much of her work focuses on light, often depicting all that’s radiant about the individual through social commentary. Her work can also float through and around womanhood. Alternatively, she shares cycles of healing and growth, fluidity, sexuality, death and rebirth, and the idea of femininity through text, film, video, performance, photography, and sculpture. Corrine works to explicitly bring a femme narrative forward and reclaim space and time. A central goal in her practice is to elevate Black joy, a narrative which goes underrepresented.