Video: 2011 Jazz Poetry Concert Highlights
by Sampsonia Way / February 29, 2012 / No comments
Palestinian poet Hind Shoufani with Oliver Lake and the Tarbaby Trio
On September 10, 2011 City of Asylum/Pittsburgh hosted its 7th annual Jazz Poetry Concert. This free event feautured jazz musician Oliver Lake and the jazz trio Tarbaby.
The poets included Sonia Sanchez, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh’s writer-in-residence Israel Centeno from Venezuela, former writer-in-resident Khet Mar from Burma, and three writers from the University of Iowa International Writing Program: Palestinian Hind Shoufani, Russian Alexandra Petrova, and Finnish Tommi Parkko.
The event also included a high-wire act by the tightrope walkers The Flying Wallendas performing to the words of Salman Rushdie from his novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet.
