Jerome Jennings & iLL Philosophy, Carly Inghram, Montaser Abdel Mawgoud, Bo Mima at Jazz Poetry Month at City Of Asylum @ Alphabet City

City of Asylum is thrilled to host this Jazz Poetry performance in collaboration with our first-ever Bridges Creative Summit! Each Jazz Poetry program begins with a full set by the band, followed by a collaborative performance with each poet. In these collaborations, poets share their work alongside the musicians, the two art forms melding to create that signature Jazz Poetry improvisational style that offers something exciting, new, and unique with each performance.

This program welcomes 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, featuring turntables courtesy of DJ OOOChild...

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City of Asylum is thrilled to host this Jazz Poetry performance in collaboration with our first-ever Bridges Creative Summit! Each Jazz Poetry program begins with a full set by the band, followed by a collaborative performance with each poet. In these collaborations, poets share their work alongside the musicians, the two art forms melding to create that signature Jazz Poetry improvisational style that offers something exciting, new, and unique with each performance.

This program welcomes 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, featuring turntables courtesy of DJ OOOChild. 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.

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