Lone Star College – Montgomery Library, Writers In Performance Series. — Images and video by kenne
September 17, 2009, poet Rich Levy was the presenter at the first fall 2009 Writers In Performance at Lone Star College – Montgomery. As I had done for about a year, I recorded his reading, which took place in the college library. Levy earned his MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop and has been the executive director of Inprint, a nonprofit literary arts organization in Houston, Texas, since 1995.
Several of the poem he read were from his 2009 book of poems, “Why Me?” One of the poems that impressed me was titled, “Body and Soul” after Coleman Hawkins’ recording — “. . . the hurling way in which their talk moves, the way his nostrils flare as he tries with an occasional false shyness to avert his glance makes me think of Coleman Hawkins’ 1939 recording of Body and Soul, the one that took the world’s breath away, . . . “
This is poetry that possesses the feelings that makes Blues and Jazz the most human of all music, therefore existential.
kenne
(I first posted the video September 19, 2009.)
Good afternoon! Good post.
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Thanks, Cassy.
The spoken word and mellow music – excellent, thank you.
You are welcome.
Kenne, thanks for the postings. I got here trying to get some background on Rich Levy, who I will see read tonight at Kaboom Bookstore in the Heights.
Once here,your slideshow was lagniappe.
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Listen to the words and the music. — kenne