EVENT: Driving the Poem: Hettie Jones with Dr. Guy's Musiqology

Poetry and jazz is about one+one=one, the spoken word as instrument, its meaning become tone and tempo, another voice in the band. "Driving the Poem" takes its cue from Hettie Jones's first poetry collection, Drive, plus the complementary pulse of the music behind her. Hettie Jones's twenty-three books for children and adults include her memoir of the Beat scene, How I Became Hettie Jones; Drive, which won the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber Award; Big Star Fallin' Mama, Five Women in ...

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