Joining me in conversation this afternoon in the 5 o'clock hour, poet, composer, Janice Lowe. A co-founder of the Dark Room Collective, Ms. Lowe's most recent collection of poetry is Leaving CLE: poems of nomadic dispersal (Miami University Press, 2016).
She is also the author of the chapbook SWAM (Belladonna Series). Her poems have been published in Callaloo, American Poetry Review, In the Tradition, and The Hat; they have also appeared on a digital album with Drew Gardner’s Poetics Orchestra. Her essays have appeared in Sing the Sun Up and The Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook.
“In Leaving CLE, Janice Lowe’s debut collection, she imagines poems as scores for socially-charged lyric and performative possibility. These poems explore the psychic and material spaces and traces of Cleveland and other cities through forms that leap off the page. Lowe transforms life’s arcs into song: ‘Sing back to me bright as Sunday’—and she does.”— John Keene
Conversation begins at 02:02:40, the preceding music on play list below.
Conversation begins at 02:02:40, the preceding music on play list below.
Sunday 11/06/2016 @ 3:00PM - 6:00PM
Nina Simone My Sweet Lord / Today is a Killer Emergency Ward RCA c. 1972
Jimi Hendrix Who Knows Band of Gypsys Capitol January 1, 1970
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Art Ensemble of Chicago Dreaming of the Master Nice Guys ECM c. 1979
Ntozake Shange (Laurie Carlos) sorry for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf Buddha c. 1976
Esther Phillips I'm Gettin' Long Alright Confessin' the Blues Atlantic c. 1976
Esther Phillips I Wonder Confessin' the Blues Atlantic c. 1976
Jayne Cortez You Know Unsubmissive Blues Bola Press c. 1980
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Funkadelic Music for My Mother Funkadelic Westbound c. 1970
Richard Pryor Bicentennial Nigger Bicentennial Nigger Warner Brothers c. 1976
Jimi Hendrix The Star-Spangled Banner Woodstock Cotillion August 1969
Sun Ra The Truth About Planet Earth The Space Age is Here to Stay Modern Harmonic c. 1978
Sun Ra Nuclear War The Space Age is Here to Stay Modern Harmonic c. 1983
Sly and the Family Stone If You Want Me to Stay Fresh Epic c. 1973
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Gil-Scott Heron Lady Day and John Coltrane The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Flying Dutchman c. 1974
Ron Carter Uptown Conversation Uptown Conversation Embryo October 1969
Ron Carter Ten Strings Uptown Conversation Embryo October 1969
Ron Carter Half a Row Uptown Conversation Embryo October 1969
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Herbie Hancock Jack Rabbit Inventions and Dimensions Blue Note August 30, 1963
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Abbey Lincoln My Way Live In Misty Kiva (Japan) c. 1973
Abbey Lincoln Japanese Dream Live In Misty Kiva (Japan) c. 1973
Abbey Lincoln Rainbow Live In Misty Kiva (Japan) c. 1973
