Jazz Poetry Month at Alphabet City / City of Asylum ONLINE

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 7:00PM Tallahatchie Lullaby, Baby 
Run time: 75 minutes

A riveting, vital poem—a lullaby to Emmett Till with four national jazz greats creating new pieces in response. Read by author Douglas Kearney, compositions and performances by Pheeroan akLaff, Dee Alexander, Orrin Evans, and Nicole Mitchell. 

Co-curated by MacArthur Fellow Terrance Hayes. 

This concert features multiple interpretations and multiple hearings of one piece, created in response to longstanding issues of systemic social injustice and racial inequality. 

DOUGLAS KEARNEY has published six collections, including Buck Studies (Fence Books, 2016), winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award, the CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry, and California Book Award silver medalist (Poetry).