THREE TIME U.S. POET LAUREATE ROBERT PINSKY PRESENTS PROVERBS OF LIMBO
When:
Saturday, Sep 09, 2023 7:30p -
10:00p
Saturday, Sep 09, 2023 7:30p -
10:00p
Where:
Cityspace WBUR
890 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
Admission:
$25 (reserved seating), $15 (general admission) and $5 for students
Hosted by:
Categories:
Music
Event website:
https://www.wbur.org/events/866639/poet-robert-pinsky-presents-proverbs-of-limbo
Three time U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky will present "Proverbs of Limbo," Saturday, September 9 at 7:30 pm (doors at 6:30 pm) at WBUR's CitySpace [890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215]. It's PoemJazz. It's a jazz concert. It's a poetry happening. It's uniquely its own thing. Poetry, Proverbs and Percussion.
Louis Chude-Sokei, Professor of English, George & Joyce Wein Chair in African American & Black Diaspora Studies and Director of The African American & Black Diaspora Studies Program at Boston University, will offer introductory remarks for the evening's program.
Tickets are on sale now at $25 (reserved seating), $15 (general admission) and $5 for students. CitySpace's cash bar will be available.
The band will feature Music Director and pianist Laurence Hobgood, bassist John Lockwood, cellist Catherine Bent, saxophonist, flutist and singer Stan Strickland and Special Guest Percussionist, Mino Cinélu who performed and toured with Miles Davis, Sting, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and hundreds of other major artists.
Robert will also be releasing a new album, Proverbs of Limbo: PoemJazz III (2023), in sync with this concert. The album will feature Laurence Hobgood, Stan Strickland, John Lockwood and Mino Cinélu who all will be performing in this concert as well. The album will be on sale at CitySpace as well. The title track is now available on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and other streaming sites.
This concert is a benefit concert to support the next 25 years of the Favorite Poem Project and the many programs it stewards. Robert Pinsky, who is a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University, founded this program his first term as U.S. Poet Laureate.
“The word ‘limbo’ means a border,” Pinsky says. “I like borders. The mix of energies, even when a border may scare me, also inspires me. The clashes and likenesses between things— among cultures, people, beliefs, languages, past and present— can be horrible or wonderful. Or both, mostly! My poems and I have been formed by improvised mixtures, beginning with the New Jersey Shore borderlands where I grew up.”
