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Roger Humphries + RH Factor - Jazz Poetry Month - Alphabet City / City of Asylum - Northside

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Roger Humphries + RH Factor, Sahar Muradi, Xan Forest Phillips, Volodymyr Rafeyenko, & Mónica de la Torre. - Jazz Poetry Month - Alphabet City / City of Asylum - Northside

Roger Humphries: drums; Yoko Suzuki: saxophone; Lou Stellute: saxophone; Dwayne Dolphin: bass; Max Leake: piano

Roger Humphries and RH Factor return to City of Asylum to join in the 20 year anniversary of Jazz Poetry.

Tuesday night poets feature City of Asylum writer-in-residence and prolific Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Rafeyenko in his Jazz Poetry debut, winner of the University of Pittsburgh Press’s Donald Hall Prize for Poetry Sahar Muradi, sharing work from her recently published collection Octobers, recipient of The Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers Xan Forest Phillips, and Mónica de la Torre, Mexican poet and winner of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts C.D. Wright Award for Poetry.

Roger Humphries + RH Factor, Sahar Muradi, Xan Forest Phillips, Volodymyr Rafeyenko, & Mónica de la Torre