Poetry Clips of the Week: Janice A. Lowe, Leaving CLE

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

These video clips are the part of a series highlighting recent readings held by SF State’s Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives. Visit this website regularly for fresh poetic content.

On April 20, The Poetry Center presented Janice A. Lowe performing her songs written to the poems from her book Leaving CLE: Poems of Nomadic Dispersal (Miami University Press, 2016). Yohann Potico, bass, and Kevin Carnes, drums, joined Lowe for the performance.

Lowe (voice, keyboard, composition), Potico and Carnes perform Sign.

 

Lowe, Potico and Carnes perform We Wear the Mask, Lowe’s song to the Paul Laurence Dunbar poem.

 

Full program

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