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SUMMARY:Reading and Writing Inspiration by Poet Reuben Jackson
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a poetry reading followed by a writing exercise wi
 th Black American poetry elder and jazz critic Reuben Jackson. .\nhttps://
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Jackson will read from Scattered Clouds: N
 ew &amp\; Selected Poems\, a volume of meditations on love\, loss\, and lo
 nging\, published in 2019 by Alan Squire Publishing. Then he will lead par
 ticipants in a writing prompt inspired by the title of a composition by Ch
 arles Mingus entitled &ldquo\;Myself When I Am Real.&rdquo\;</p>\n<p>Reube
 n Jackson is a music critic of national reputation. A former archivist and
  curator of the Smithsonian&rsquo\;s Duke Ellington Collection\, he makes 
 frequent appearances on WPFW\, Washington DC&rsquo\;s publicly-supported r
 adio station devoted to jazz and justice. Jackson&rsquo\;s first volume of
  poetry\, fingering the keys\, was selected by Joseph Brodsky for the Colu
 mbia Book Award. From 2013 until 2018\, he was host of Friday Night Jazz o
 n Vermont Public Radio. He currently serves as an archivist with the Unive
 rsity of the District of Columbia&rsquo\;s Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives.</
 p>\n<p><br /><strong>for duke ellington</strong></p>\n<div>\n<p>music is y
 our mistress\;<br />demanding constant love<br />and international setting
 s.</p>\n<p>as always\, you stroll beside her.</p>\n<p>again\, grumpy orche
 stra<br />springs into elegance at the drop<br />of your hand.</p>\n<p>eve
 n so\, there are casualties.</p>\n<p>the years pass.<br />You bury rabbit 
 and swee&rsquo\;pea\,<br />run your fingers across the black keys\,<br />d
 ip the color into your hair.</p>\n<p>cancerous nodes<br />rush toward a ha
 rrowing cadenza\,<br />pen kisses paper\,</p>\n<p>a lover<br />in no parti
 cular hurry\,<br />the music reveals itself<br />a negligee black note at 
 a time</p>\n</div>\n<p>&ndash\;Reuben Jackson\, from Scattered Clouds: New
  &amp\; Selected Poems\, published in 2019 by Alan Squire Publishing</p>\n
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