Launch of D.D. Jackson’s “Poetry Project” Album

September 6, 2024 marks the release date of D.D. Jackson’s “Poetry Project,” featuring the work of poets Ayesha Chatterjee, George Elliott Clarke, Luciano Iacobelli, Irving Layton, Micheline Maylor, Bruce Meyer, A.F. Moritz, Giovanna Riccio, Libby Scheer, Yin Xioyuan and Choucri Paul Zemokhol, set to music by D.D. Jackson, and performed by instrumentalists D.D. Jackson, Rich Brown, Jane Bunnett, Tom Fleming, Kelly Jefferson, George Koller, Larnell Lewis, and Curtis Stewart, and vocalists Laila Biali, Dean Bowman, Yoon Sun Choi, Ethan Cronin, Sammy Jackson, John Lindsay-Botten, and Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez.

The digital release is now available on Bandcamp.

For additional information, visit D.D. Jackson’s website, specifically, ddjackson.com/poetry-project.

Here’s the text of my poem, from The Garden, “Coda: The Blues,” track 12 of the CD.