Brooklyn Book Festival: The Poetry of Performed Science and Sound: The Tracie Morris Band and Tyehimba Jess

Thu 15 Sep, 2011, 8pm

In Syncopated Verse and the Art of Paradox, renowned poet Tyehimba Jess will explore the contrapuntal poem and how poetic form can reflect aspects of Euclidian space, history and geometry.

The Tracie Morris Band features: Tracie Morris (voice/poetry) Val Jeanty (electronic drums) and Marvin Sewell (guitar). Tracie Morris is a multidisciplinary poet, performer and scholar and works as a sound artist, writer, bandleader and actor. Her installations have been presented at the Whitney Biennial, Ronald Feldman Gallery, the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning and the New Museum.