Jazz Poetry Month - Alphabet City / City of Asylum - Northside

This celebration of 20 years of Jazz Poetry kicks off with the return of crowd favorite, four-time-returning festival headliner, and critically acclaimed jazz saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, performing with his quartet.

James Brandon Lewis: tenor saxophone; Chad Taylor: drums; Chris Lightcap: bass; Alexis Marcelo: piano

Joining James on the Alphabet City stage - poets Amit Chaudhuri (visiting from India), Pittsburgh’s own Toi Derricotte, winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Shara McCallum, and, City of Asylum writer-in-residence Olena Boryshpolets.

James Brandon Lewis, Amit Chaudhuri, Toi Derricotte, Shara McCallum, and Olena Boryshpolets