Poet Langston Hughes regularly performed at the festival, but in the decades since, poetry has been largely absent. That changes this year when aja monet takes the stage with her quartet on Friday, Aug. 2.
In the decades since then, singers and rappers have offered plenty of rhymes, but poetry itself has been largely absent during the famed festival. That’s changing this year with poet, who will be performing her poems on Friday, Aug. 2, along with her quartet: saxophonist Logan Richardson, bassist Jermaine Paul, drummer Justin Brown and pianist Javier Santiago.
monet is quick to point out that she’s “leaning into that rich tradition of poets collaborating with musicians.” Hughes and James Weldon Johnson were called “blues poets.” The beat poets of the 1950s were heavily influenced by bebop.
Last year, “when the poems do what they do” was nominated for a Best Spoken Word Poetry Album Grammy. monet politely corrects this reporter, who refers to what she does as spoken word. “It implies that poetry was not inherently an oral tradition,” she says. “It predates the printing press.”
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