Jazz Poetry 2025: Jerome Jennings & iLL Philosophy and Poets - Alphabet City, Northside Live and Online

sextet Jerome Jennings & iLL Philosophy. The brainchild of drummer and Emmy Award–winning composer Jerome Jennings, the group performs original compositions that fuse jazz with blues, bebop, Afrobeat, and hip hop.

Featured Musicians: Jerome Jennings: drums, compositions; Stephane Clement: trumpet; Neta Raanan: tenor and soprano saxophones; Alexis Marcelo: piano; Malik Kiyoshi McLaurine: bass; DJ OOOChild: turntables

In Person - and online stream -

This performance is a collaboration and improvisation with talented poets from all over the world, including former ICORN resident Montaser Abdel Mawgoud; Bo Mima, the newest City of Asylum Writer-in-Residence; and Carly Inghram, a poet from Atlanta whose 2021 collection, The Animal Indoors (Autumn House Press), was selected by Terrance Hayes as the winner of the Book Prize of the Center for African American Poetry & Poetics. Bo Mima will read his poems in Arabic and be joined by his translator, Ethan Pullman, Senior Lecturer of Arabic Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, who will translate and perform Bo Mima’s poetry in English.