Opinion/Singer: Living with contradiction, and danger
Sean Singer
This month, poet Sean Singer guest-writes for my column space and discusses how driving a taxi in New York City gave rise to reflection on danger, contradiction, and the possibility of violence in daily life. With his prose poem, Antivenom, Singer shows us how poetry and metaphor are ways to explore these tensions and, ultimately, how poems can help us to understand our own experiences. His book, Today in the Taxi, is a collection in which juxtaposition both jolts and reveals.
Tina Cane, Poet Laureate of Rhode Island, tinacane.ink
Contradiction is a part of being alive: we exist among things that are at odds with one another. Poets deal with contradiction. We use metaphor to show hidden or surprising connections among things. Poems make spaces to help us work with the things we can’t say or don’t understand.
W. Royal Stokes has lived a jazz life as unpredictable as the music
Chris Richards, The Washington Post
Feb. 26, 2021
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1of5Jazz critic W. Royal Stokes at a 2005 book reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D..C.Erika HartmannShow MoreShow Less
2of5 The Essential W. Royal Stokes Jazz, Blues and Beyond Reader is out now.W. Royal StokesShow MoreShow Less
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4of5W. Royal Stokes. a champion of women in jazz, wrote several profiles of female performers, including pianist Shirley Horn, photographed in 2004 with bassist Ed Howard.Washington Post photo by Dudley M. BrooksShow MoreShow Less
5of5 One foot back in the past, one foot into the future. That s how the critic W. Royal Stokes describes the way he hears jazz after living 90 years on this dizzy planet - and it makes for a pretty good description of how we experience life, too. It s a continuity, a perpetual improvisation, a negotiation between what we know and what we don
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Early in 1998, saxophonist James Carter signed a modeling contract, perhaps explaining the title of this LP. His jazz chops, we are happy to report, have not suffered. On Fashion, Carter and his sax are all business. He i.
Sonny Rollins interview: “I love music of course, but I don’t listen any more. It’s too frustrating to listen to music when I can’t participate” Sonny Rollins interview: “I love music of course, but I don’t listen any more. It’s too frustrating to listen to music when I can’t participate” Kevin Le Gendre Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Kevin Le Gendre speaks to the jazz legend Sonny Rollins about looking back on a lifetime of music-making and his quest to keep on growing as a human being and artist
Sonny Rollins (photo: Mamadi Doumbouya) Thank you for visiting Jazzwise.co.uk