Jazz Poetry 2025: Stephanie Chou Quintet and Poets - Alphabet City, Northside

Featured Musicians:

Stephanie Chou: vocals, saxophone, compositions; Tomoko Omura: violin; Hyuna Park: piano; Ike Sturm: bass; Ronen Itzik: drums

May is Jazz Poetry Month - Each Jazz Poetry program begins with a full set from a live jazz band, followed by a collaboration with local and international poets.

STEPHANIE CHOU QUINTET, JAN BEATTY, OLENA BORYSHPOLETS, MUBANGA KALIMAMUKWENTO

New York City–based composer, saxophonist, and singer Stephanie Chou takes to the jazz poetry stage for the first time. Stephanie blends Chinese musical influences with Western jazz and pop to create a unique and vibrant musical world. Pairing with Stephanie and her band are renowned poets Jan Beatty, whose eighth book, Dragstripping, takes readers to dragstrip (in all its forms) where the ecstatic is rescripted; Olena Boryshpolets, a Ukrainian poet (and City of Asylum Writer-in-Residence) who recently released her moving and beloved collection Orpheus and Eurydice in New York; and Zambian writer and winner of the 2024 Drue Heinz Prize Mubanga Kalimamukwento, who returns to Pittsburgh to share her debut poetry collection, Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies.
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