Robert Pinsky will present “Proverbs of Limbo,” Saturday, September 9 at 7:30 pm (doors at 6:30 pm) at WBUR’s CitySpace
Boston, MA--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.
CitySpace Tickets
Premiere: $25.00 (includes reserved seating in the front of the theater)
General: $15.00
Student: $5.00 (must present a valid student ID upon arrival)
Phone: (617) 358-8672
Email: events@wbur.org
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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.”
2023/09/09 - 2023/09/09
WBUR CitySpace
890 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215