Jazz Poetry Month 2023 Concludes with Violist Melanie Dyer returns for her second night of Jazz Poetry, this time amid the ranks of WeFreeStrings. The sextet is joined by poets  Desiree C. Bailey, Roy G. Guzmán, and Orlando Watson.

WeFreeStrings is an Afro-Modernist string sextet that performs creative, improvised music. The group is comprised of Charles Burnham and Gwen Laster (violins), Melanie Dyer (viola), Alex Waterman (cello), Ken Filiano (bass), and Newman Taylor-Baker (percussion).

The combined credits of the sextet include work with musical legends Sun Ra Arkestra, James “Blood” Ulmer, Anthony Braxton, William Parker, Wadada Leo Smith, Don Byron, Nona Hendryx, Henry Grimes, and Medeski, Martin & Wood, in musical and multimedia settings.