Week Four of Jazz and Poetry Month 2025


 

We are celebrating both Jazz Month and Poetry Month in April 2025! We are pairing a poem written either in Wisconsin, by a Wisconsinite, or about Wisconsin with a jazz song produced in Wisconsin, by a Wisconsinite, or about Wisconsin​ each day. 


Read and listen to week four's featured poems and jazz, and fin​d the full Jazz Month 2025 Youtube playlist here.​



Day Fifteen​

We are spotlighting « Flow » by DeMar Walker, a multidisciplinary artist and educator from Milwaukee, WI, along with « Ornette (alternate) » performed by Roscoe Mitchell, a 2020 NEA Jazz Master living in Madison, WI.


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Day Sixteen​

We are spotlighting « Nibii-wiiyawan Bawaadanan * / Dreams of Water Bodies » by Kimberly Blaeser, past Wisconsin Poet Laureate and founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets, a poet, photographer, and scholar, along with « KASE » performed by Jamie Breiwick, from Racine, WI and regarded as one of Wisconsin's most in-demand and versatile jazz trumpet players.

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Day Seventeen​

We are spotlighting « Paralysis » by Aleena Ahmed, the 2024–25 Milwaukee Youth Poet Laureate, along with « Visage De L Humanite » performed by Joe Sanders, an American bassist/multi-instrumentalist and composer based in the south of France, born and raised in Milwaukee, WI.​​​

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Day Eighteen​

We are spotlighting « nature » by Emily Igwike, Milwaukee’s first youth poet laureate, along with « I Don't Want You No More » performed by Lili K, an American jazz and soul vocalist and songwriter born in Milwaukee, WI.

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Day Nineteen​

We are spotlighting « Like the Wind » by Dasha Kelly Hamilton, former Artist of the Year and Poet Laureate for the City of Milwaukee and the 2020-2022 Poet Laureate for the State of Wisconsin, along with « In The Mood » performed by Ladies Must Swing, an all-female jazz band based in Madison, WI.


Dasha Kelly Hamilton has also served as co-emcee at storytelling events at Ex Fabula​. Ex Fabula which is Latin for “from stories”, is an amazing organization in Milwaukee that presents storytelling workshops, StorySlams and Community Collaborations where people listen to each other, feel heard, and grow in empathy and understand​ing.​


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​Keep up with the Jazz month and Poetry Month celebrations on our socials (Instagram, Facebook​), and check back next week, for the final week of amazing poems and son​gs!​


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