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SFJAZZ Appoints Ishmael Reed First SFJAZZ Poet Laureate

SFJAZZ Appoints Ishmael Reed First SFJAZZ Poet Laureate

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations

SFJAZZ, the leading nonprofit jazz organization on the West Coast, the presenter of the SFJAZZ Spring Season 2012 running now through June 22, and the San Francisco Jazz Festival, today announced the appointment of Ishmael Reed as the first SFJAZZ Poet Laureate. This appointment will serve to expand and promote the role of poetry and spoken word in jazz and to continue celebrating jazz as a living art form built on a constantly evolving tradition. The mission of SFJAZZ is ...

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Jazzmobile and the Schomburg Center Present Ishmael Reed and Billy Bang: Spoken Word for Peace

Jazzmobile and the Schomburg Center Present Ishmael Reed and Billy Bang: Spoken Word for Peace

Source: All About Jazz

Jazzmobile in Partnership with the Schomburg Center present: “Spoken Word for Peace" With Celebrated Poet Ishmael Reed and Innovative Jazz Violinist Billy Bang Saturday, February 25, 7:00pm, Free admission The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Blvd. (entrance 103 W. 135th Street), NYC 10037 212 491-2200 Renowned writer Ishmael Reed, one of the most original and controversial African American literary figures and a group ...

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'Fighting For Peace' Music & Spoken Word Event featuring Patience Higgins/Poet Ishmael Reed & more (Saturday, 4/17)

'Fighting For Peace' Music & Spoken Word Event featuring Patience Higgins/Poet Ishmael Reed & more (Saturday, 4/17)

Source: All About Jazz

Divergent Worlds Come Together to Honor Daniel Pearl and Call for Peace “Fighting for Peace," Music and the Spoken Word Event at the Knitting Factory, Saturday, April 17, 7:30pm

Celebrated Poet Ishmael Reed Performs Poetry and Works by Buddhist Philosopher Daisaku Ikeda; Music by Patience Higgins

New York, March 22, 2004

Unlikely confluences of worlds intersect on Saturday, April 17, when renowned American poet Ishmael Reed recites his own poetry together with peace poems by philosopher ...

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