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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: JAZZ Matches Found: 670 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` (WHAT DID I DO TO BE SO) BLACK AND BLUE, by THOMAS WALLER Poem Source First Line: Out on the street, %shufflin feet Last Line: They laugh at you and scorn you too. %what did I do to be so black and blue Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians 1 POEM -- 2 VOICES -- A SONG, by SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: His body he arched when he play -- like miles Last Line: The best has touched me Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians 19, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my binu shrine, the sogo altars pull me home Last Line: And hear its cithara voice in the dye¯li's craft. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians 21-AUG-84, by ALEDA SHIRLEY Poem Source First Line: She thinks at first it is rain Last Line: When the improvisation occurred Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians 23-OCT-83, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way she played the piano Last Line: In that gathering %that water Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians 33 1/3 RPM, by GEORGE ECONOMOU Poem Source First Line: One plays the saxophone Last Line: Leaving it behind Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN COLTRANE: PLAYED BY HIMSELF, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't remember train whistles Last Line: I thought would bring me that sound. Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians A/COLTRANE/POEM, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My favorite things Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians A/COLTRANE/POEM, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My favorite things Last Line: If we just %lisssssssssten Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians ABILITY TO MAKE A FACE LIKE A SPIDER WHILE SINGING BLUES, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: Who knows if they sing in their webs Last Line: What you deserve, a gleam, a solo look, %a song to repair the break of day Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Wells, Junior (1934-1998) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I said a while back Last Line: If you have ears! Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians AFREEKA BRASS, by MWATABU OKANTAH Poem Source First Line: I hear you trane Last Line: And black ... %africa Subject(s): Africa; Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians AFRICA, MUSIC AND SHOW BUSINESS, by ABDULLAH IBRAHIM Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Geography / so many theories of east and west abound Last Line: And she scratched vaguely under her armpit. Subject(s): Africa; Jazz; Music & Musicians AFTER LISTENING TO JACK TEAGARDEN, by JAMES MCKEAN Poem Source First Line: I will blame him Last Line: As loud as I could Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Teagarden, Jack (1895-1964) AFTER LISTENING TO MONK, by THOMAS C. DENT Poem Source First Line: Too much the city's cacophonous noise and light Last Line: Death just around the corner %of midnight Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD, by DAVID RUSSELL JAUSS Poem Source First Line: The arkestra glitters in their saturn gowns Last Line: Doomed to life on this planet Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sun Ra [herman Blount] (1914-1993) AFTER THE RAIN, by STANLEY CROUCH Poem Source First Line: John's words were the words Last Line: And love each other. %salaam Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians AFTER THE WAR; WHEN COLTRANE ONLY WANTED TO PLAY DANCE TUNES, by MATTHEW GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: The sadness of afternoons was unmistakable Last Line: Cabs along the avenue Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians ALBERTA HUNTER, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You could hear Last Line: Ladies and gentle %men I've had enough Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Hunter, Alberta (1895-1984); Jazz; Music And Musicians ALICE ZENO TALKING, AND HER SON GEORGE LEWIS THE JAZZ CLARINETIST, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now if all of you were gone Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Jazz; Lewis, George (1900-1968); Music & Musicians ALICE ZENO TALKING, AND HER SON GEORGE LEWIS THE JAZZ CLARINETIST, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now if all of you were gone Last Line: I used to sing sing sing those boys %to sleep when they were only babies Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Jazz; Lewis, George (1900-1968); Music And Musicians ALMOST BLUE, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If hart crane played the trumpet Last Line: And you let to and why not Subject(s): Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music & Musicians ALMOST BLUE, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If hart crane played the trumpet Last Line: Breathing in the lindins %and you let go and why not Subject(s): Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music And Musicians AM/TRAK, by AMIRI BARAKA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trane / trane, history love scream on Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music & Musicians AM/TRAK, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trane %trane, history love scream on Last Line: As rightly %burning Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music And Musicians ANAXIMANDER LEWIS, by JON C. TRIBBLE Poem Source First Line: Mr. Jones kicked him out Last Line: Into notes that burned out the bell Subject(s): Bands; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Schools ANSWERS IN PROGRESS, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can you die in airraid jiggle Last Line: That's the way the fifth day ended. Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians ANY WOMAN'S BLUES, by SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Soft lamp shinin Last Line: Naw. My song ain't through Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Women AQUA, SELS., by ASGER SCHNACK Poem Source First Line: Let the poppy unfold itself let it intoxicate Last Line: On the outside of your body like a snail or a pearl Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians ARCHANGEL, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You stepped through %the van gogh blue curtain Last Line: As the cool, jazzy, starry night %opened its arms to retrieve you Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music And Musicians ART PEPPER, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the broken phrases, the fury inside him Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Pepper, Art (1925-1982) ART PEPPER, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the broken phrases, the fury inside him Last Line: The white grief-stricken wail Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Pepper, Art (1925-1982) ASSASSINATION OF CHARLIE PARKER, by ARTHUR BROWN Poem Source First Line: Bird does not live Last Line: Bop charles christopher parker is yardbird-dead o-rooney Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) AT THE BRIDGE WITH RUFUS, by KENNETH MCCLANE Poem Source First Line: Once again the wind is howling and you, rufus Last Line: And the rest of us must go back to the dark city Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians AT THE HALF NOTE CAFE (VERSION A), by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I heard him play Subject(s): Ammons, Gene (1925-1974); Jazz; Music & Musicians AT THE HALF NOTE CAFE (VERSION A), by IRA SADOFF Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I heard him play Last Line: I gasped for air, couldn't get enough of it Subject(s): Ammons, Gene (1925-1974); Jazz; Music And Musicians AT THE HALF NOTE CAFE (VERSION B), by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I heard him play Subject(s): Ammons, Gene (1925-1974); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners AT THE HALF NOTE CAFE (VERSION B), by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I heard him play Last Line: Put her stiffened nipple in my mouth Subject(s): Ammons, Gene (1925-1974); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Restaurants AT THE JAZZ CLUB HE BECOMES A GHOST, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember? We were here once, love was a new cut Last Line: Lover's wallet while he sleeps and steals away Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians AUTUMN IN NEW YORK, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Manhattan's skyline Last Line: And I shall multiply my days as the phoenix Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) AUTUMN LEAVES, by JAMES CUSHING Poem Source First Line: The end of summer suggested the way Last Line: And darting insects, heavy footed, feeling for the map Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians BABY VALLEJO, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take the night myron stout shut his sure blind eyes Last Line: Rivard against rivard Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians BACK HOME BLUES, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Not sure at first Last Line: Promising: dig you %now, catch you later Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) BAGEL SHOP JAZZ, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow people, projected on coffee-shop walls Last Line: Brief, beautiful shadows, burned on walls of night Subject(s): Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; United States; America BAGEL SHOP JAZZ, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow people, projected on coffee-shop walls Last Line: Brief, beautiful shadows, burned on walls of night Subject(s): Americans; Jazz; Music And Musicians; United States BANDSTAND, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monk's dissonant hat Last Line: Who could dance Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music & Musicians BANDSTAND, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monk's dissonant hat Last Line: For mother and dad %who could dance Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians BATTLE REPORT, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One thousand saxophones infiltrate the city Last Line: The city falls. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians BE-BOP BOYS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imploring mecca Last Line: With decca. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks BECAUSE I AM; IN MEM. SIDNEY BECHET, 1897-1959, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I am a memorious old man Last Line: Out of the reaches of the impermeable night. Subject(s): Bechet, Sidney Joseph (1897-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians BEN WEBSTER AND A LADY, by HOWARD HART Poem Source First Line: Did you call? Last Line: Call there Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Webster, Ben (1909-1973) BEN WEBSTER: 'DID YOU CALL HER TODAY?', by RON WELBURN Poem Source First Line: We do not care if you were Last Line: I heard about that affair %in my youth Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Webster, Ben (1909-1973) BESSIE, by ALVIN BERNARD AUBERT Poem Source First Line: My gloriana Last Line: Of our most common need Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) BESSIE SMITH'S FUNERAL, by ALVIN BERNARD AUBERT Poem Source First Line: The brief procession Last Line: Her song is news, begins the dispensation %of the blues Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Funerals; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) BILLIE HOLIDAY, by ANNEMARIE EWING Poem Source First Line: She was known as lady Last Line: Out of ginger...Hot tar...Pistachio...Gall Alternate Author Name(s): Towner, John H., Mrs.; Towner, Annemarie Ewing Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers BILLIE HOLIDAY, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Wouldn't you know it? -- the lady has her name Last Line: This is the lady's home %she never had Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers BILLIE HOLIDAY, by STERLING D. PLUMPP Poem Source First Line: Feel and hear. Last Line: Major in kneeling %with my ears Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers BILLIE HOLIDAY, by HANS R. VLEK Poem Source First Line: A woman a lady Last Line: She knows %sings Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers BILLIE IN SILK, by ANGELA JACKSON Poem Source First Line: I have nothing to say to you, billie holiday Last Line: My mouth is on fire. Let it burn Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Popular Culture - United States; Singing And Singers BILLIE PIERCE'S JAZZ FUNERAL, by LEE MEITZEN GRUE Poem Source First Line: Billie pierce used to sing to me Last Line: So I'm still grieving Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Pierce, Billie (1907-1974); Singing And Singers BIRD, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon plays horn, leaning on the shoulder of the dark universe Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955) BIRD, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon plays horn, leaning on the shoulder of the dark universe Last Line: Attempting flight home Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) BIRD FEATHERS: WHY'D THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Piggy, stop! Last Line: Yeah, charlie yardbird Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) BIRD LIVES': CHARLES PARKER IN ST. LOUIS, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last on legs, last on sax Last Line: "bird lives! Bird lives! And you do: Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955) BIRD LIVES': CHARLES PARKER IN ST. LOUIS, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last on legs, last on sax Last Line: Bird lives! Bird lives! And you do: %dead Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) BIRD, THE BIRD, THE BIRD, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the spring flowers I likewise am Last Line: Implacable, but content Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) BISHOP OF ATLANTA: RAY CHARLES, by HORACE JULIAN BOND Poem Source First Line: The bishop seduces the world with his voice Last Line: Don't it make you feel all right? Subject(s): Charles, Ray (b. 1930); Jazz; Music And Musicians BIX BEIDERBECKE, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: China boy, lazy daddy. Cryin' all day Last Line: Would heaven be as white as iowa? Subject(s): Beiderbecke, Bix (1903-1931); Jazz; Music And Musicians BLACK ANIMA, by NORMAN J. LOFTIS Poem Source First Line: Spiked cadillacs with silver teeth Last Line: The void jetting in Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music And Musicians BLACK BACK-UPS, by KATE RUSHIN Poem Source First Line: This is dedicated to merry clayton, fontella bass, vonetta Last Line: Do - do %do Alternate Author Name(s): Rushin, Donna Kate Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; African Americans - Women; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Popular Culture - United States; Singing And Singers; Women's Rights BLACK LOVE BLACK HOPE, by JR. DOUGHTRY LONG Poem Source First Line: In the middle Last Line: Of how it was %being hip Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians BLACK ORCHID, by DAVID RUSSELL JAUSS Poem Source First Line: Tonight he's playing the black orchid Last Line: It's not august, it's not new york, %and he is not dying Subject(s): Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music And Musicians BLEW IT, by MICHAEL CASTRO Poem Source First Line: Through the tobacco haze Last Line: They just said yeah, & let him fly Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Shaw, Woody [herman] (1944-1989) BLIND SAXOPHONIST DIES, by DAVID HILTON Poem Source Last Line: Bright moments %everyone Subject(s): Jazz; Kirk, Rahsaan Roland (1936-1977); Music And Musicians BLUEHAWK, by ANNE WALDMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monk's gone Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music & Musicians BLUEHAWK, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monk's gone Last Line: Soar high Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians BLUES, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The spring has swept the ice from all my frozen rivers Last Line: Just play me your 'solitude,' duke, till I cry myself to sleep Subject(s): Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Negritude (literary Movement) BLUES, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those five or six young guys Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians BLUES, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those five or six young guys Last Line: About love. If it's so tough, %forget it Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians BLUES FIVE SPOT, by ART LANGE Poem Source First Line: A last item a found object Last Line: Now be, legitimate %-ly Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) BLUES FOR HAROLD, by RAY BREMSER Poem Source First Line: You took Last Line: Blow now / harold; %take yr/solo ... Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Drugs And Drug Abuse; Jazz; Music And Musicians BLUES FOR JOHN COLTRANE, DEAD AT 41, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although my house floats on a lawn Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians BLUES FOR JOHN COLTRANE, DEAD AT 41, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although my house floats on a lawn Last Line: Planing by, full throttle Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians BLUES FOR THE LONELY, by JEREMY ROBSON Poem Source First Line: Now the birds begin to crow. It is time for them to crow Last Line: The silence and the hundred questions illuminated in the sky Subject(s): Blues (music); Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music And Musicians BLUES IN 'C', by RONALD ERNEST OVERTON Poem Source First Line: It's the torque of a spring sunday Last Line: And it is quieter now Subject(s): Evans, Gil (1912-1988); Jazz; Music And Musicians BLUES POEM, by JACK MICHELINE Poem Source First Line: I got no smile cause I'm down Last Line: The palace of my mind Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians BMP BMP, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lugubriously enough they're playing Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bechet, Sidney Joseph (1897-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians BMP BMP, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lugubriously enough they're playing Last Line: Just on time for the band to leave together, %headed for the tin roof blues Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bechet, Sidney Joseph (1897-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians BODY & SOUL, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: A band of men: clan Last Line: His splendorous cape Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) BODY AND SOUL (TAKE 1), by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: 29-aug Last Line: Live, she said, for him Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) BODY AND SOUL (TAKE 2), by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Abandon all hype Last Line: Not inductee, but goat. Butt %altar meat Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) BONES AND DRUMS, by RON WELBURN Poem Source First Line: Generations unfold from our faces Last Line: In the split rhythm accents of 4/4 Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians BOSS COMMUNICATION, by MARI E. EVANS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wes %cradling his ax Last Line: If he knows you %heard Subject(s): Jazz; Montgomery, Wes (1925-1968); Music And Musicians BOSS GUITAR, by USENI EUGENE PERKINS Poem Source First Line: Charlie (christian) died Last Line: You played so well Subject(s): Jazz; Montgomery, Wes (1925-1968); Music And Musicians BROADWAY! BROADWAY!, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Halloween is black and orange Last Line: A black velvet an %orange corona corona Subject(s): Gordon, Dexter (1923-1990); Jazz; Music And Musicians BROKEN BACK BLUES, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O yr facing reality now Last Line: It is a hopeless world Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians BROKEN BACK BLUES, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O yr facing reality now Last Line: It's a hopeless world Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians BUD POWELL, 1925-1966, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The notice, dead at 41, kings county hospital, reached me at 20 when Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians BUD POWELL, 1925-1966, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The notice, dead at 41, kings county hospital, reached me at 20 when Last Line: When it was needed, shoveled in earth Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians BUD POWELL, PARIS, 1959, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd never seen pain for bland Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Paris, France; Powell, Bud (earl) (1924-1966) BUD POWELL, PARIS, 1959, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd never seen pain for bland Last Line: And calls it company, and it is Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Paris, France; Powell, Bud (earl) (1924-1966) BUDDY BOLDEN CYLINDER, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It doesn't exist, I know, but I love Last Line: But you can see the leaves shiver in place %as if they'd like to turn their insides out Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bolden, Buddy (1877-1931); Jazz; Music And Musicians BUNK JOHNSON, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949) BUNK JOHNSON BLOWING, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They found him in the fields and called him back to music Last Line: We three slid down that san francisco hill Subject(s): Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Ledbetter, Huddie [leadbelly] (1888-1949; Music & Musicians; Leadbelly BUNK JOHNSON BLOWING, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They found him in the fields and called him back to music Last Line: We three slid down that san francisco hill Subject(s): Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Ledbetter, Huddie [leadbelly] (1888-1949; Music And Musicians BUNK JOHNSON'S GRAVE AT NEW IBERIA, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Weeks, please don't bury me among them Subject(s): Graves; Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Music & Musicians; Tombs; Tombstones BUNK JOHNSON'S GRAVE AT NEW IBERIA, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Weeks, please don't bury me among them Subject(s): Graves; Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Music And Musicians BUT, RUBY MY DEAR, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He hikes those narrow chords one more time Last Line: Of discordant fusion / scaling Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians C.T. AT THE FIVE SPOT, by THULANI DAVIS Poem Source First Line: This is not about romance & dream Last Line: Ever since I can remember/ I have heard this music Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Taylor, Cecil (b. 1929) CABARET, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rich, flashy, puffy-faced / hebrew and anglo-saxon Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Jazz; Music & Musicians CABARET, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rich, flashy, puffy-faced %hebrew and anglo-saxon Last Line: Is a bitter reminder of death %dee da dee daaaah Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians CALIFORNIA SORROW: CLAREMONT RAGA, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Languorous landscape Last Line: Comes closer / and more near Subject(s): Jazz; California CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: APRIL. BILLIE'S BLUES, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their red lamps make a childlike stab Last Line: Him. Sounds universal to me Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; New York City; Singing And Singers CALLIN BUDDY BOLDEN, by ARTHUR BROWN Poem Source First Line: Callin buddy bolden -- bolden callin Last Line: Who's gone insane Subject(s): Bolden, Buddy (1877-1931); Jazz; Music And Musicians CANARY, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Billie holiday's burned voice Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Songs CANARY, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Billie holiday's burned voice Last Line: If you can't be free, be a mystery Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Drugs And Drug Abuse; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers CANNON ARRESTED, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somethin' else and / kind of blue Last Line: Wickered in vestibule, drifting away Subject(s): Adderly, Cannonball (1928-1975); Jazz; Music & Musicians CANNON ARRESTED, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somethin' else and %kind of blue Last Line: A divided storehouse near a black %resort town, this sweet alto-man %wickered in vestibule, drifting Subject(s): Adderly, Cannonball (1928-1975); Jazz; Music And Musicians CARVIN' THE BIRD, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Taking good care your Last Line: Listen at you blow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) CECIL TAYLOR, SELS., by JOE+(2) JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Conga li bombo gri gri Last Line: Bombo li li bombo Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Taylor, Cecil (b. 1929) CHASING THE BIRD, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The sun sets unevenly and the people Last Line: To me a mangle is. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955) CHET'S JAZZ, by RICHARD ELMAN Poem Source First Line: The jamming together of fragments Last Line: Us to believe in inspired errors Subject(s): Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music And Musicians CHICAGO SCENE, by JOHN+(1) LOGAN Poem Source First Line: At the bar called Last Line: Of the plugged moon Subject(s): Chicago; Jazz; Music And Musicians CHOOFA, by MANDY SAYER Poem Source First Line: One night before a gig Last Line: That solo on 'nature boy' %you used to know Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians COLEMAN HAWKINS (D. 1969). RIP, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if that sax Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Hawkins, Coleman (1904-1969); Jazz; Music & Musicians COLEMAN HAWKINS (D. 1969). RIP, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if that sax Last Line: I hate it that he's dead Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Hawkins, Coleman (1904-1969); Jazz; Music And Musicians COLTRANE AND MY FATHER, by RALPH SNEEDEN Poem Source First Line: Late one night I hear his breath Last Line: From nowhere, %then out of sight to the left Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Fathers; Jazz; Music And Musicians COLTRANE, SYEEDA'S SING FLUTE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To marilyn, to peter, / playing, making things: the walls, the stairs Last Line: Up to the shins, up the eyes, / closed over Subject(s): Children; Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Childhood COLTRANE, SYEEDA'S SING FLUTE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To marilyn, to peter, %playing, making things: the walls, the stairs Last Line: Left up here, playing Subject(s): Children; Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians COMING FORTH BY DAY, by JOHN TAGGART Poem Source First Line: Cold and, cymbals fizz with no old animals among railroad tracks Last Line: Birds fade out, rising Subject(s): Coleman, Orenette (b. 1930); Jazz; Music And Musicians CONCENTRATION CAMP BLUES, by HENRY DUMAS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ain't jokin people, I aint playin around Subject(s): Ghettos; Jazz; Music & Musicians CONCENTRATION CAMP BLUES, by HENRY DUMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ain't jokin people, I aint playin around Last Line: I aint jokin, I got to get outa his camp %cause the man is ready to number us all with a rubber stam Subject(s): Ghettos; Jazz; Music And Musicians CONVERSATION, by JEFFREY (JEFF) FRIEDMAN Poem Source First Line: My father sat %in an armchair Last Line: And he beamed me a smile. %this is how we talked Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments COUSIN MARY, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goes way back to the days/my father a young man Last Line: Her song to me across years Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians CREPUSCULE WITH NELLIE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monk at the five spot Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music & Musicians CREPUSCULE WITH NELLIE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monk at the five stop Last Line: And where the hell was nellie? Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians CURTIS FULLER, by RICK MADIGAN Poem Source First Line: On my fourteenth birthday Last Line: Then took my favorite uncle in his urn Subject(s): Fuller, Curtis (b. 1934); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers DANCE FOR MA RAINEY, by ALBERT JAMES YOUNG Poem Source First Line: I'm going to be just like you, ma Last Line: To prove that we're still here Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Al Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Rainey, Ma (1886-1939) DANCE OF THE INFIDELS; IN MEMORY OF BUD POWELL, by ALBERT JAMES YOUNG Poem Source First Line: The smooth smell of manhattan taxis Last Line: I love you Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Al Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Powell, Bud (earl) (1924-1966) DANCING TO ELLINGTON, by JAN SELVING Poem Source First Line: I found him downstairs Last Line: To the place I could watch %my father dance Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Dancing And Dancers; Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); Fathers; Jazz; Music And Musicians DARK SHADOWS. TAKE 2, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Bird pats his foot Last Line: Hums a funky blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) DARK SHADOWS: (TAKE 3) NIGHTHAWKS, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Jelly roll morton laid claim Last Line: His feet, and hugs him %self against the cold Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) DEAR JOHN, DEAR COLTRANE, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sex fingers toes / in the marketplace Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians DEAR JOHN, DEAR COLTRANE, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sex fingers toes %in the marketplace Last Line: A love supreme, a love supreme Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians DEATH JAZZ: A REVIEW, by JACK MUELLER Poem Source First Line: Stuck in a club with a group that calls itself Last Line: Half-tamed and still in love Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians DEATH OF CHET BAKER, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere between amazing grace %and great balls of fire we Last Line: And fell back to earth again. %the body here beneath this stone %was chet baker, who has flown Subject(s): Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music And Musicians DEDICATED TO THE LATE JOHN COLTRANE, by SHIRAISHI KAZUKO Poem Source First Line: Suddenly %he went to heaven Last Line: Of saint coltrane %in heaven Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians DID JOHN'S MUSIC KILL HIM, by ALFRED B. SPELLMAN Poem Source First Line: In the morning part Last Line: Will not contain you Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians DIRGE IN JAZZ TIME, by VASSAR MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice forever match to dry wood Last Line: Where no one can warm her whose heart burned bright, %where red-hot mama is cold tonight Subject(s): Jazz; Literary Form; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Tucker, Sophie (1884-1966) DISTANCE, by EUGENE B. REDMOND Poem Source First Line: I am still on fire Last Line: I ache in anger to get home Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians DON'T CRY, SCREAM, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the sixties Last Line: And the gods will too Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L. Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians DON'T SAY GOODBYE TO THE PORKPIE HAT, by LARRY NEAL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't say goodbye to the porkpie hat that rolled Last Line: This time from the top Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians DREAM BOOGIE, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good morning, daddy! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks DREAM BOOGIE, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good morning, daddy! Last Line: I'm happy! %take it away! %hey,pop %re-bop! %mop! %y-e-a-h! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music And Musicians DREAM SONGS: 68, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard, could be, a hey there from the wing Last Line: Black to the birds again Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) DRIVING HOME, by RICHARD ELMAN Poem Source First Line: Radiant blue grey Last Line: Like soft ripe orange melons Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Navarro, Fats (1923-1950) DRIVING THE BIG CHRYSLER ACROSS THE COUNTRY OF MY BIRTH, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would wait for the tunnels Last Line: In this sunship from motown. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians DRUM CRAZY, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year of the drummer Last Line: Of his bout against drums Subject(s): Drums; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments DRUM CRAZY, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year of the drummer Last Line: Of his bouts against the drums Subject(s): Drums; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments DUKE ELLINGTON DREAM, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of course zimmer was late for the gig Last Line: You have shat upon my charts, %but I love you madly Subject(s): Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); Fantasy; Jazz; Music And Musicians EASY TO LOVE, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: And he went up into the mountain Last Line: And he was new baptized Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) ECHOES, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The piano keys sit stiff and stark, sterile Last Line: And on %and ... Subject(s): Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); Jazz; Music And Musicians ELEGANCE IN THE EXTREME, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How to burn up discreetly Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Taylor, Cecil (b. 1929) ELEGY, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crying from exile, I Last Line: Alone, you are dead Subject(s): Jazz; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music & Musicians ELEGY, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crying from exile, I Last Line: Alone, you are dead Subject(s): Jazz; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music And Musicians ELEGY, by BILL ZAVATSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music your hands are no longer here to make Last Line: From the spring of song that never stops its kiss Subject(s): Evans, Bill (1929-1980); Jazz; Music & Musicians ELEGY, by BILL ZAVATSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music your hands are no longer here to make Last Line: From the spring of song that never stops its kiss Subject(s): Evans, Bill (1929-1980); Jazz; Music And Musicians ELEGY FOR KENNY DORHAM, by JOEL "YEHUDA" WOLK Poem Source First Line: The news of dorham's Last Line: Hung itself up Subject(s): Dorham, Kenny (1924-1972); Jazz; Music And Musicians ELEGY FOR PROFESSOR LONGHAIR, by ELTON GLASER Poem Source First Line: Over the low lope of the bass, the highhat's chatter Last Line: You rode life a raft into heaven Subject(s): Jazz; Longhair, Prof. [henry Byrd] (1918-80); Music And Musicians ELEGY FOR THE DUKE, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: Ellington is dead Last Line: Weather as soul %the world turning over Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); Jazz; Music And Musicians ELEGY FOR THELONIOUS, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Damn the snow Last Line: Pulled down over his eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians ELLINGTON INDIGOS, by ALEDA SHIRLEY Poem Source First Line: It's the day of the penumbral eclipse and I'm driving Last Line: Or we could brew a pot of tea, bundle up in quilts, %and sit on the terrace, awaiting the eclipse Subject(s): Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); Jazz; Music And Musicians ELVIN JONES GRETSCH FREAK, by DAVID HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: Gretsch love Last Line: Near the park Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Jones, Elvin (b. 1927); Music And Musicians ELVIN'S BLUES, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sniffed, dilating my nostrils Last Line: With only itself to love Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Sex; Jones, Elvin (1927-2004); Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin ELVIN'S BLUES, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sniffed, dilating my nostrils Last Line: With only itself to love Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sex ERIC DOLPHY, by MICHAEL LALLY Poem Source First Line: Eric dolphy blew my brains out Last Line: Eric dolphy not moving, %eric dolphy gone %eric dolphy back again Subject(s): Dolphy, Eric (1928-1964); Jazz; Music And Musicians ERIC DOLPHY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out to lunch' Subject(s): Dolphy, Eric (1928-1964); Jazz; Music & Musicians ERIC DOLPHY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out to lunch' Last Line: In the thick of it now Subject(s): Dolphy, Eric (1928-1964); Jazz; Music And Musicians EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE, by JAMES CUSHING Poem Source First Line: No situation presents itself Last Line: Old men creaking in folding metal chairs Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians FEBRUARY IN SYDNEY, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dexter gordon's tenor sax Last Line: To scream for help through a horn Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Gordon, Dexter (1923-1990); Jazz; Music And Musicians FERGUSON'S CONQUISTADORES 77, by JOY WALSH Poem Source First Line: Maynard cooked vesti la giubba Last Line: Pillaged %and prayed Subject(s): Ferguson, Maynard (b. 1928); Jazz; Music And Musicians FIFTIES, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miles davis is on a night off Last Line: Miles has started to use a mute %on all standards Subject(s): Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music And Musicians FINE AND DANDY, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Join up with us, says Last Line: Perfectly good enough Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) FLATTED FIFTHS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little cullud boys with beards Last Line: And dig all plays. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks FOO TO THE INFINITE, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Play vanilla,' lester young is said Last Line: "play vanilla, I say to him, and he to me: ""play dead." Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Young, Lester ('prez') (1909-1959) FOR ALFRED AYLER, by VICTORIA MCCABE Poem Source First Line: You owned the surge and will of water Last Line: Your records unrealized, selling cheap Subject(s): Ayler, Albert (1936-1970); Jazz; Music And Musicians FOR ART BLAKEY AND THE JAZZ MESSENGERS, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For the sound we revere Last Line: Of strange and brutal design Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse Subject(s): Blakey, Art (1919-1990); Jazz; Music And Musicians FOR BILLIE HOLIDAY, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lady day, lady day Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers FOR BUD; FOR BUD POWELL, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could it be, bud Last Line: Enough for you Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Powell, Bud (earl) (1924-1966) FOR ERIC DOLPHY, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On flute Last Line: Got a whuppin Subject(s): Dolphy, Eric (1928-1964); Jazz; Music And Musicians FOR LIL LOUIS, by THOMAS C. DENT Poem Source First Line: Louis I'm trying to understand what you were Last Line: & only the moon will understand %lou/is Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Armstrong, Louis (1900-1971); Jazz; Music And Musicians FOR LOUIS ARMSTRONG, A JU-JU, by SARAH WEBSTER FABIO Poem Source First Line: Louis, louis, louis, louis Last Line: Blow on out %of %this %world Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Armstrong, Louis (1900-1971); Jazz; Music And Musicians FOR MILES, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your sound is faultless Last Line: Yet unimaginable score? Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music & Musicians FOR MONK, by MICHAEL THOMAS MCCLURE Poem Source First Line: All is cool and boundless as a rolling Last Line: Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Tired old fear. Oh! Oh! Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians FOR SIDNEY BECHET, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes Subject(s): Bechet, Sidney Joseph (1897-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians FOR SIDNEY BECHET, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes Last Line: And greeted as the natural noise of good, %scattering long-haired grief and scored pity Subject(s): Bechet, Sidney Joseph (1897-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians FOR STEPHANE GRAPPELLI, by ROGER MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: He got a rhythm in his wrist so quick Last Line: The jelly in the jam of his paree Subject(s): Grappelli, Stephane (b. 1908); Jazz; Music And Musicians FOUR VOICES ENDING ON SOME LINES FROM OLD JAZZ RECORDS: 1., by RODERICK HARTIGH JELLEMA Poem Source First Line: The red neon sign Last Line: I can stand more trouble %than any little woman my size Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings FOUR VOICES ENDING ON SOME LINES FROM OLD JAZZ RECORDS: 2., by RODERICK HARTIGH JELLEMA Poem Source First Line: They tell me to settle down Last Line: And boy %if I ain't riffin' tonight I hope sumthin' Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings FOUR VOICES ENDING ON SOME LINES FROM OLD JAZZ RECORDS: 3., by RODERICK HARTIGH JELLEMA Poem Source First Line: Out in the smoke of every gig I play Last Line: Get the hell off my note Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings FOUR VOICES ENDING ON SOME LINES FROM OLD JAZZ RECORDS: 4., by RODERICK HARTIGH JELLEMA Poem Source First Line: This morning Last Line: And I wouldn't be a methodist %to save me Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings FREEDOM AND DISCIPLINE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint harmony, many / years I have stript Subject(s): Discipline; Freedom; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Liberty FROM RICH UNEASY AMERICA TO MY FRIEND CHRISTOPHER LOGUE, by ADRIAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Jim hall's guitar walking around Last Line: It overflows, by christ, it overflows Subject(s): Hall, Jim (b. 1930); Jazz; Music And Musicians; United States FROM STAR TO SUN WE ARE GOING, by FATISHA Poem Source First Line: The out-sane men have walked Last Line: Our habitat into the sun! Subject(s): Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music And Musicians GENIE IN THE JAR, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take a note and spin it around spin it around don't Last Line: Don't prick your finger Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Simone, Nina (b. 1933); Singing And Singers GET UP, BLUES, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL Poet's Biography First Line: Blues / never climb a hill Subject(s): Blues (mood); Jazz; Music & Musicians GET UP, BLUES, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blues %never climb a hill Last Line: Fly. %learn what it means %to be up high Subject(s): Blues (mood); Jazz; Music And Musicians GLORY TRUMPETER, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old eddie's face, wrinkled with river lights Last Line: For my own uncle in america, %that living there I never could look up Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians GONSALVES, by RON WELBURN Poem Source First Line: Crescendoes are indigo scarves Last Line: Cabo verde, a place not far %from guinea Subject(s): Gonsalves, Paul (1920-1974); Jazz; Music And Musicians GREAT, by CLARK COOLIDGE Poem Source First Line: The greatness of music Last Line: The seething things %a breathing star Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians GROOVIN' HIGH, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Legendary Last Line: Parker. Who were you? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) GULF MUSIC, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mallah, walla tells bella. Trah mah trah-la, la, la, la Subject(s): Hurricans; Jazz; New Orleans HAIKU: 9, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Making jazz swing in Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Jazz HANK MOBLEY'S, by CORNELIUS ROBERT EADY Poem Source First Line: Sorry, hank Last Line: Dumbly speaking %to whom? Subject(s): Jazz; Mobley, Hank (1930-1986); Music And Musicians HARLEM GALLERY: BOOK 1, THE CURATOR: LAMBDA, by MELVIN BEAUNORUS TOLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the mouth of the harlem gallery Last Line: If old satchmo had never been born!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tolson, Melvin Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Armstrong, Louis (1900-1971); Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music And Musicians HARLEM GALLERY: BOOK 1, THE CURATOR: MU, by MELVIN BEAUNORUS TOLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hideho heights / and I, like the brims of old hats Last Line: Of the indigo combo. Alternate Author Name(s): Tolson, Melvin Variant Title(s): The Harlem Gallery: Mu Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music & Musicians HEALING ANIMAL, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this day when you have needed to sleep forever Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs HEALING ANIMAL, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this day when you have needed to sleep forever Last Line: And you will sing forever Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers HERE WHERE COLTRANE IS, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soul and race Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians HERE WHERE COLTRANE IS, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soul and race Last Line: In the eyes of my first son are the browns %of these men and their music Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians HIGHEST WIND THAT EVER BLEW: HOMAGE TO LOUIS, by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ever, ever in unanimous voice we drift Last Line: For our savage reverend assault upon the stars Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Armstrong, Louis (1900-1971); Jazz; Music And Musicians HISTORIOGRAPHY, by LORENZO THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The junkies loved charles parker and the sports Last Line: 1974). Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin HISTORY OF JAZZ, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves of blue came drifting down Last Line: He smilingly picked up his yellow horn to play, but all that came out of it was steam Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians HISTORY OF MY HEART: 1, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One christmastime fats waller in a fur coat Last Line: As it fell over my mother's imagery and remembered %macy's in new york years before I was even born Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Waller, Fats (thomas Wright) (1904-1943) HOLLYWOOD JAZZ, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who says it's cool says wrong Last Line: Here. Take my arm, walk with me Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians HOLLYWOOD JAZZ, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who says it's cool says wrong Last Line: Here, take my arm. Walk with me Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians HOMAGE TO COLEMAN HAWKINS, by KENNETH IRBY Poem Source First Line: Still hearing the hawk in his region Last Line: The great souls %solo Subject(s): Hawkins, Coleman (1904-1969); Jazz; Music And Musicians HOMAGE TO LITERATURE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you imagine trumpet-faced musicians Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets HOMAGE TO LITERATURE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you imagine trumpet-faced musicians Last Line: Think: poems fixed this landscape: blake, donne, keats Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets HOMAGE TO THE EMPRESS OF THE BLUES, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because there was a man somewhere in a candystripe silk shirt Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Negroes; American Blacks; Songs HOMAGE TO THE EMPRESS OF THE BLUES, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because there was a man somewhere in a candystripe silk shirt Last Line: And shone that smile on us and sang Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) HOME COOKIN': CHARLES AND REBECCA. THEIR BEDROOM. EVENING, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Says, you won't come see Last Line: You go, now, you hear Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) HONKY TONK IN CLEVELAND, OHIO, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a jazz affair, drum crashes and cornet razzes Subject(s): Jazz HOOTIE BLUES, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: The musicians Last Line: Orville laughed, that's %what you think Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) HOPPING TOAD BLUES, by RAYMOND RICHARD PATTERSON Poem Source First Line: What I give that man, some other woman takes Last Line: Come hopping home one morning and find your sweet mamma gone Alternate Author Name(s): Patterson, Ray Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians HORIZONTAL COSMOLOGY: 1 THE BACKYARD, by CHRISTOPHER GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Suddenly this voice is calling Last Line: How far? Clear enough for my friends %who look for me to feel between them Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians HORIZONTAL COSMOLOGY: 4. SAXOPHONE, by CHRISTOPHER GILBERT Poem Source First Line: My bell is charlie parker's Last Line: For you: you must be- %hold enough to play Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955); Saxophones HOT CLUB DE FRANCE 'REPRISE ON MTV', by VINCE GOTERA Poem Source First Line: A rock video, and there you were Last Line: A blossom of flame blooming from a gypsy caravan Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Reinhardt, Django (1910-1953); Television HOT HOUSE, 1515 OLIVER STREET, K.C., MO, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Circled, like cats on - Last Line: To follow his lead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) HOW HIGH THE MOON, by LANCE JEFFERS Poem Source First Line: First the melody, clean and hard Last Line: Full from the sullen grace of his street it sprouts: %never your captive Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Trumpets HUMPHF, by JOHN SINCLAIR Poem Source First Line: They say monk Last Line: Some more of that old north carolina boogaloo Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians I CHING, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mountain & lake Last Line: That they lean against Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Taylor, Cecil (b. 1929) I CHING, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mountain & lake Last Line: But the white care stays the same %that they lean against Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Taylor, Cecil (b. 1929) I FOUND A NEW BABY, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Fairskinned, even in Last Line: Like he is her own Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: The kick, they call Last Line: Metes and bourn of my %meager mastery Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) I HEAR THE SHUFFLE OF THE PEOPLE'S FEET, by STERLING D. PLUMPP Poem Source First Line: I am a name clanging Last Line: I hear the shuffle of the peoples' feet Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians I HEARD THE BYRD, by OLIVER LAGRONE Poem Source First Line: It was a bash! Last Line: I heard the bird Subject(s): Byrd, Donald (b. 1932); Detroit, Michigan; Jazz; Music And Musicians I REMEMBER YOU, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Down on her knees Last Line: Mustn't lock the door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) I SAY, MR. A, by SAMUEL ALLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When %at the close of war Last Line: But they was both a bitch! Alternate Author Name(s): Vesey, Paul Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Armstrong, Louis (1900-1971); Jazz; Music And Musicians I SEE CHANO POZO, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A very fine conga of sweat Last Line: I see chano pozo Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians I WANT EV'RY BIT OF IT, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: When moses (brooder Last Line: Ever turn that down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) I'LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU JUST THE SAME, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Addie %framed on the mantle Last Line: Em, and hold on tight Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) IN A RUN-DOWN NEIGHBORHOOD, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: A storm of images, he said, like a strom they come Last Line: Nor do I have much time left, he said, I haven't much %time either Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Neighbors IN MEMORIAM JOHN COLTRANE, by MICHAEL STILLMAN Poem Source First Line: Listen to the coal Last Line: To the coal train roll Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE, by GEORGE+(2) BARLOW Poem Source First Line: Always first to rise Last Line: Filled his great lungs %with cool air Subject(s): Fathers; Jazz; Music And Musicians IN THE CAPABILITY, by SAMUEL ABRAMS Poem Source First Line: Of one man's breath Last Line: & said 'hey man Subject(s): Coleman, Orenette (b. 1930); Jazz; Music And Musicians IN THE PALAIS ROYALE BALLROOM IN 1948, by JOHN ENGELS Poem Source First Line: Just at the end of the first set I step out Last Line: That fragrance of light again Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians IN THE TRADITION, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Blues walk weeps ragtime Last Line: Death to the klan! Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians INTO THIS TIME, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The melancholy buttocks of dawn Subject(s): Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music And Musicians ISLAND, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Here the island is complete. The edges of the hard brick buildings are Last Line: Hope lingering in a time well after his death Subject(s): African Americans; Islands; Jazz; Music And Musicians IT DON'T MEAN A THING IF IT AIN'T GOT THAT SWING, by DUKE ELLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Wah-dah do, wah-dah do Last Line: If it ain't got that swing Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians IT'S A PARTY (1959), by BARON WORMSER Poem Source First Line: The rhododendron is happy. Its aloof yet sexual Last Line: The sympathetic overheard genius plays on Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How easily my heart falls back into habits Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Anxiety; Jazz; Music & Musicians IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How easily my heart falls back into habits Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Anxiety; Jazz; Music And Musicians JAM SESSION, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Letting midnight / out on bail Last Line: Pop-a-da Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks JAMMING, by EVERETT HOAGLAND Poem Source First Line: It was that rainy summer night Last Line: Of a saxophone Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians JANUARY AFTERNOON, WITH BILLIE HOLIDAY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice shifts as if it were light Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs JANUARY AFTERNOON, WITH BILLIE HOLIDAY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice shifts as if it were light Last Line: Tomorrow is something she remembers Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers JASBO BROWN, by DUBOSE HEYWARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loose heady laughter shook the humid night Last Line: Life is jus' hello %an' so-long Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians JAZZ, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jazz JAZZ, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: The music speaks for itself. And it certainly spoke to me. It called me Last Line: And before he knew it, he was writing poetry Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Ethnic Groups - United States; Jazz; Music And Musicians JAZZ, by SYBIL KEIN Poem Source First Line: From storyville, vaudeville, caberets, and tonks Last Line: One mo' time! Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians JAZZ (A NEW INTERPRETATION), by KAREN WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Slick %silky %soul Last Line: Shoo be do be do wop she bop %she bop %she bop Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians JAZZ AS WAS, by ALBERT JAMES YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Sometimes it's the flagrant accentuation Last Line: & do double time between the born-again beats Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Al Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians JAZZ AT THE INTERGALACTIC NIGHTCLUB, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The management is pleased to announce Last Line: Now you may all go home Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians JAZZ BAND, by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Play the thing, you jazz mad fools! Last Line: Play the thing, you jazz mad fools! Subject(s): Bands; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Orchestras JAZZ BAND, by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Play the thing, you jazz mad fools! Last Line: Play that thing, you jazz mad fools! Subject(s): Bands; Jazz; Music And Musicians JAZZ CHICK, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music from her breast, vibrating Last Line: Her music... / jazz Subject(s): Women; Jazz JAZZ DANCER, by CORNELIUS ROBERT EADY Poem Source First Line: I have a theory about motion Last Line: In the war against %the obvious Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Jazz; Music And Musicians JAZZ DRUMMER, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Max roach / has fire and steel in his hands Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Roach, Max (b. 1924) JAZZ DRUMMER, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Max roach %has fire and steel in his hands Last Line: Calls us all Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Roach, Max (b. 1924) JAZZ FAN LOOKS BACK, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I crisscrossed with monk Last Line: Jazz at the philharmonic Subject(s): Cities; Jazz; Music And Musicians JAZZ FANTASIA, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos Subject(s): Jazz; Language; Music & Musicians; Words; Vocabulary JAZZ FANTASIA, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos Last Line: Hills...Go to it, o jazzmen Subject(s): Jazz; Language; Music And Musicians JAZZ IMPRESSIONS IN THE GARDEN, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dark as a cow. It's a downpour Last Line: Listening to women sing, dragging their chains. %requiem of the thunder. Roll on Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians JAZZ MUST BE A WOMAN, by THEODORE JOANS Poem Source First Line: Jazz must be a woman because its the only thing that Last Line: That we jazzmen want to -- blow Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians JAZZ OF THIS HOTEL, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I curse the jazz of this hotel? Last Line: That seems so hot, but it so hard and cold Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians JAZZ POEM, by USENI EUGENE PERKINS Poem Source First Line: Dead musicians are not jazz lovers Last Line: And a new wave of jazz lovers is buried Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians JAZZ POEM FOR THE GIRL WHO CRIED WOLF, by JAMES NOLAN Poem Source First Line: Just one too many times Last Line: Just being there Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians JAZZ TO JACKSON TO JOHN, by JR. JERRY W. WARD Poem Source First Line: Movement one: genesis Last Line: Words for john Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians JAZZMEN, by LEE MEITZEN GRUE Poem Source First Line: Mister, your eyes are bright blue numbers Last Line: And distant buoys that bell in the night Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians JAZZONIA, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, silver tree! Last Line: Six long-headed jazzers play. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks JOHN BERRYMAN LISTENING TO ROBERT JOHNSON'S 'KING OF THE DELTA BLUES', by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Am I a dead man? Am I a dead man? Last Line: The gin with ice cube, lemon twist Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Blues (music); Jazz; Johnson, Robert (1913-1938); Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets; Singing And Singers JOHN COLTRANE/ AN IMPARTIAL REVIEW, by ALFRED B. SPELLMAN Poem Source First Line: May he have new life like the fall Last Line: You want help. You are sorry you are born with ears Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians JUJU, by ASKIA M. TOURE Poem Source First Line: ... And they were there in the city of fire, enflamed Last Line: A love supreme ... Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians JUMPIN' BLUES, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Squares out there dancing Last Line: They can rub and twirl Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) JUNGLE STRUT, by ALBERT JAMES YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Of all nights, yours were greenest, gene Last Line: Locked up in one) was aging and tasty. Bottoms up? Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Al Subject(s): Ammons, Gene (1925-1974); Jazz; Music And Musicians JUST ANOTHER GIG FOR CHARLIE PARKER, by BARON JAMES ASHANTI Poem Source First Line: Rampaging spectral images %darkling strange & imminent Last Line: Rogue cunning stalking future shock %the void a step into the unknown! Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) JUST FRIENDS, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Came once, addie told me Last Line: I was the apple %of their eye Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) KNOCKING DONKEY FLEAS OFF A POET FROM SOUTHSIDE OF CHI, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A worldman Last Line: Bringing the rest of the world with it Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L. Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians LADY'S DAYS, by LARRY NEAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: More song. Birds follow the sun Last Line: Reason for towns, faces, moans ... Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers LAST DUSK OF AUGUST, by ALEDA SHIRLEY Poem Source First Line: A cold front's blowing in; the fragrant air Last Line: In the car but behind it, the only skier on the water Subject(s): Davies, Miles (1662-1719); Jazz; Music And Musicians LATESUMMER BLUES, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, the grass is a pleasant thing Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians LATESUMMER BLUES, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A battered hat, a torn shoe filled with gray sand Last Line: Tattered rot at the end of a rope Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians LE JAZZ HOT, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Talked to my father again in a dream he seemed happy Last Line: And found it of some interest Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians LE SPORTING-CLUB DE MONTE CARLO (FOR LENA HORNE), by JAMES BALDWIN Poem Source First Line: The lady is a tramp Last Line: With the voice of ages %singing us through Subject(s): Horne, Lena (b. 1917); Jazz; Music And Musicians LEE MORGAN, by DAVID HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: Fly by night Last Line: Behind us glow the red lights %the black night Subject(s): Jazz; Morgan, Lee (1938-1972); Music And Musicians LESTER LEAPS IN, by ROB CARNEY Poem Source First Line: At sixteen, I was already a shark Last Line: I overheard them loving in the dark Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) LESTER LEAPS IN, by ALBERT JAMES YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Nobody but lester let lester leap Last Line: In order to blow what it's like being born. Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Al Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Young, Lester ('prez') (1909-1959) LESTER YOUNG, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: As befitting the president, lester's residence Last Line: The president of love: %lester young Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) LESTER YOUNG, by THEODORE JOANS Poem Source First Line: Sometimes he was cool like an eternal Last Line: They live -- in hipsters like you and I Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) LET'S ALL HEAR IT FOR MILDRED BAILEY, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The men's can at cafe society uptown Last Line: In a world gone wrong. Subject(s): Bailey, Mildred [rinker] (1907-1951); Jazz; Music & Musicians LIBERATION OF MUSIC, by GRACE CAVALIERI Poem Source First Line: When someone brought Last Line: Which holds my life together Subject(s): Braxton, Anthony (b. 1945); Jazz; Music And Musicians LISTEN TO THE SOUND OF MY HORN, by HENRY DUMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Listen to the sound of my horn, I say, %greaat music and I...Have come at last! Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians LISTENING TO JAZZ NOW, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listening to jazz now, I'm happy Subject(s): Jazz LISTENING TO LESTER YOUNG, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's 1958. Lester young minces Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Young, Lester ('prez') (1909-1959) LISTENING TO LESTER YOUNG, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's 1958. Lester young minces Last Line: Can easily read the future Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) LISTENING TO SONNY ROLLINS AT THE FIVE-SPOT, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There will be many other nights like Last Line: A-noth— Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Rollins, Sonny (b. 1930) LOCOMOTION, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: I heard the %locomotion behind Last Line: Began, slowly, to unfold Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians LONELY BOY BLUES, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Charles, solitary sentry Last Line: After he had to stay here %all by himself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) LOST FUGUE FOR CHET, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A single spot slides the trumpet's flare then stops Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse LOST FUGUE FOR CHET, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A single spot slides the trumpet's flare then stops Last Line: Plunge beneath the still green waters of the grand canal Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music And Musicians LOUIS ARMSTRONG, by ERNST MOERMAN Poem Source First Line: Suddenly in the midst of a game of lotto with his sisters Last Line: They suck me out of the world Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Armstrong, Louis (1900-1971); Jazz; Music And Musicians LOVE POEM, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As long as the cat comes home Last Line: Out of notes, dying. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians LOVER MAN, by JAMES CUSHING Poem Source First Line: Give it all back, even what you were just handed Last Line: On a bookcase. He's a list of moons Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians LOVIN YOU IS ECSTASY TO ME, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 25 years w/ the art ensemble Last Line: Lovin you is ecstasy to me Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians MA RAINEY, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ma rainey comes to town Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Rainey, Ma (1886-1939); Singing & Singers; Women; Songs MA RAINEY, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ma rainey comes to town Last Line: She jes' gits hold of us dataway Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Rainey, Ma (1886-1939); Singing And Singers; Women MAJESKI PLAYS THE SAXOPHONE, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He killed his parents Last Line: And forced out the mouth, %jazz Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Insanity; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Saxophones MAKE/N MY MUSIC, by ANGELA JACKSON Poem Source First Line: My colored childhood was mostly music Last Line: I found billie %holiday - an learned %how %to cry Subject(s): African Americans - Children; African Americans - Women; Jazz; Music And Musicians MAN WITH THE SAXOPHONE, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New york. 5 a.M. Last Line: Each note a black flower, %opening, mercifully opening %into the unforgiving new day Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Cities; Jazz; Music And Musicians MEANDERING: 1. MERRY-GO-1 ROUND, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Kaycee night tripper Last Line: To ack her eight o'clock scholar %off to school Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) MEANDERING: 2. DARK SHADOWS (TAKE 1), by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: At an alley exit Last Line: For the niggers in the band Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) MEANDERING: 3. HALLELUJAH, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: There is evil going on on 12th street Last Line: Won't be worth the stay %no way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) MEMORIAL FOR TRANE, by SAM GREENLEE Poem Source First Line: Yeah, man Last Line: Start honoring %our live heroes Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians MERCY SEAT, by BRUCE SMITH Poem Source First Line: The cafe society was a cottonless plantation Last Line: Of a woman they would pick her gardenia to pieces, %petal by petal Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers MEXICO CITY BLUES (221ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old man mose early american jazz pianist Last Line: But deadbelly get ahead %ha ha ha Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Jazz; Ledbetter, Huddie [leadbelly] (1888-1949; Music And Musicians MEXICO CITY BLUES (239TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Charley parker looked like buddha Last Line: That ultimately find expression %in more and what have you Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) MIDSUMMER, by CLAIRE COLLETT Poem Source First Line: Dad would turn up the stereo Last Line: Thick in the gaining dark Subject(s): Family Life; Jazz; Music And Musicians MIGHTY TROPICALE ORCHESTRA, by SEAN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: We gather at the ship's unlit front deck Last Line: Of numbness for a few moments of wonder Subject(s): Bands; Cruise Ships; Jazz; Music And Musicians MINGUS AND MCLEAN, by JOHN REPP Poem Source First Line: The year I turned three, jackie mclean and charles mingus Last Line: Play that menthol alto, jackie, so the mountainous one can holler Subject(s): Jazz; Mclean, Jackie; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music And Musicians MINGUS AT THE SHOWPLACE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music & Musicians; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons MINGUS AT THE SHOWPLACE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen Last Line: He explained, and the band played on Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music And Musicians MOMMY'S HUBBY, by LEO CONNELLAN Poem Source First Line: We were drinking buddies in high old time town Last Line: Plots and perpetual flowers Subject(s): Greenwich Village, New York City; Jazz; Music And Musicians MONK'S DREAM, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: A beautiful man is sleeping under a pine tree Last Line: Coltrane! Coltrane! Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians MONK'S DREAM, by ART LANGE Poem Source First Line: I welcome though Last Line: Enough for now to be here Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians MONK'S POINT, by ART LANGE Poem Source First Line: What's all this about Last Line: Completely gone, no other Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians MORNING AFTER, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was so sick last night I Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks MORNING AFTER, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was so sick last night I Last Line: You jesta little bit o' woman but you %sound like a great big crowd Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians MOVE, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Charlie eye-balls the dentist's Last Line: To his move %from kid %to can Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) MUD WATER SHANGO, by THOMAS ELIAS WEATHERLY Poem Source First Line: A big muddy daddy my daddys gris-gris to the world Last Line: I'm a river hip daddy mama dig a muddy hole Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians MUSIC, by EVERETT HOAGLAND Poem Source First Line: Your archival voice Last Line: Guitar-book-long-song %crazy Subject(s): Blues (music); Guitars; Jazz; Music And Musicians MY BUDDY, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This then buddy is the blue routine Last Line: Go on, buddy, go on Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians MY FATHER'S HEROES, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not jfk, not mlk Last Line: The last words %she'd give them Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Athletes; Fathers; Jazz; Music And Musicians MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Take me, charlie says Last Line: Indifference, says nothing more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) MY JAZZ: 1, by JEAN-PAUL AUXEMERY Poem Source First Line: Fear of having charted out only the chords Last Line: Set free Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Music, Popular MY JAZZ: 2, by JEAN-PAUL AUXEMERY Poem Source First Line: (tells it like Last Line: Tell it like you know tell it like it frees Subject(s): Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music And Musicians; Music, Popular NEAR MISS HAIKU, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Order out of chaos equals frogs Last Line: Opens the book Subject(s): Books; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Poetry & Poets; Violins; Reading NEW ST. LOUIS BLUES: MARKET STREET WOMAN, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Market street woman is known fuh to have dark days Last Line: Let her git what she can git, 'fo dey lays on de coolin' board Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Jazz; Music And Musicians NEW YORK (FOR JAZZ ORCHESTRA: TRUMPET SOLO), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New york! At first I was confused by your beauty Last Line: And the seventh day he slept the great sleep of the negro Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Negritude (literary Movement) NEWARK, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John coltrane died this morning Last Line: Say itself inside our heads. Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Newark International Airport NIGHT ABOVE THE TOWN, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the glassed-in jazz club acres above Last Line: On the tables . . . Grandmother. Grandfather Subject(s): Grandparents; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers NIGHT ABOVE THE TOWN, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the glassed-in jazz club acres above Last Line: On the tables ... Grandmother. Grandfather Subject(s): Grandparents; Jazz; Music And Musicians NINA SIMONE, by LANCE JEFFERS Poem Source First Line: This brown woman's voice Last Line: The bloodsea of her mouth Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Simone, Nina (b. 1933); Singing And Singers NINA SIMONE, by PAULETTE CHILDRESS WHITE Poem Source First Line: Witch doctor lady Last Line: Sing us your song Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Simone, Nina (b. 1933); Singing And Singers NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 1, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lester had 'no eyes' for bad vibes crude moves Last Line: Deep eyes for struggle %for flight %no eyes for escape Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 10, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blind homer no eyes sang history Last Line: Caught in song %you dig %eyes Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 100, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Perfunctory respect %& too many musicians merely Last Line: Increased as daylight decreased Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 101, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Enter night through door veils Last Line: Everywhere blind to dividing lines Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 102, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Doc cloud don't talk loud Last Line: Balanced action tenor saxophone Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 103, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Boxed & bottomed %evergreen cemetery in queens Last Line: Boxed & placed in soil %a seedling all used up Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 104, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: B flat blues from dc man Last Line: Man that's fool's gold Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 105, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All my love is all I've got for you Last Line: Heats up love why not take all of me Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 106, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last gasp last pass through white plastic inlay mouthpiece Last Line: Sorry I couldn't stay %was there when it counted Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 107, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Doodle & noodle %before the door Last Line: Not only mysterious %but serious Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 108, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's not dying or crying %or blues Last Line: Just a statement of who where %when it was what Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 109, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Discs & photos %separate & divide me Last Line: I am imagined %I remain unknown Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 11, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Draped reet pleated jazz Last Line: Beyond it above it immaculate Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 110, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another new year's gig in pit of Last Line: Sweep up is what creeps do %cool cats sleep Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 111, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What's cool isn't what you drink Last Line: If you know you don't ask %it's how %not what Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 112, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Worn wise %sad glad %bad but good Last Line: On curved arch %shaving a reed Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 113, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Young cats %grays or not Last Line: Put too much dressing on the salad Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 114, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's fight for your life Last Line: What nobody do %is nobody's business Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 115, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's an old junky %old funky Last Line: What am I talking about? Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 116, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I get back I got %bass violin two cellos a viola Last Line: Yardbird made millions of records %with strings & things Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 117, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What he do - what he doesn't Last Line: We may never meet again Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 118, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Came to ny in '34 w/ henderson Last Line: Falls apart to touch %& now I'm done Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 119, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lost or found we're still Last Line: Long before virginia let us in Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 12, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I look out for every loveliness Last Line: I look out for every loveliness Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 120, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lester's insouciance was cool Last Line: It's all one linked tanka %up in smoke Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 121, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: 1947 town hall concert %lester scats count-down to each tune Last Line: Monk's sliding handkerchief dance Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 122, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No eyes roll back into dark skull cave Last Line: You got to go to know the words Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 123, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You fall into the shawl of familiar Last Line: All of me why not %take all of me Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 124, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If exhaustion were an ocean Last Line: I'd still blow words you couldn't hear Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 125, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lester led the band with his eyes Last Line: Hey baby or you know Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 126, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ding-dong %hello goodbye Last Line: Acetate fluster %sizzles digital Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 127, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bean & byas did wood %prez does air Last Line: Rejects bruise %accepts blues Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 128, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bird learned from me Last Line: To become source %skin's secondary Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 129, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Asked me who I was %who they were Last Line: & they heard nothing Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 13, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's night %arise silk flowers Last Line: Into one moment going after another Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 130, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Born 1909 died in '59 %it's '98 Last Line: Hey where's the chick singer Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 14, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No eyes to stay empty Last Line: Fly away from here Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 15, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fade away from world weight Last Line: Lean against shaping force %tilt into it Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 16, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How did it end %not on valentine's day Last Line: Day bit cracks in sky she pours through %who knew %you dig Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 17, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All of me why not take all of me Last Line: Broken heart confetti all of me Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 18, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Takes two to tango two to wrangle Last Line: Takes two to tangle %no solo Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 19, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leaps in urgent & honking Last Line: Jive alive in blue serge flip %dig it Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 2, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eyes size up every detail Last Line: Into clouds of shinola %ah eyes Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 20, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Born in summer heat august 27th Last Line: She pins to her hair before walking on stage Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 21, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Minimum to the max jim Last Line: Blind torch probe past all boundary delight %whew Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 22, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Could pray could stick around to watch Last Line: Can't get started %the party's over Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 23, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No skin inside the song is you Last Line: Just me dissolving inside out in a negative Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 24, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How slow can you go before it stops Last Line: Ghosts surround each sound slowing down Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 25, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One way is to stop eating in between drinking Last Line: Jeepers creepers where didcha get those peepers Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 26, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just you just me Last Line: They're waiting for the next set Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 27, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lady this & lady that Last Line: Is you is or is you ain't my lady Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 28, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dig the paper moon full & dangerous white tonight Last Line: Colored sky opens broadway up to day people Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 29, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Can't give you anything but love Last Line: Hold your face %in my hands %dig it Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 3, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No eyes for uncool paradise Last Line: For freedom wherever it lands Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 30, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clear moon slice %what a night for death Last Line: Paint the room black & shut the door Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 31, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ways & means of pain but sometimes Last Line: The world & self on the spot Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 32, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those tapdance cats in top hats & tails Last Line: It's not like anything else Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 33, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever they say they never knew me Last Line: We all go out kaboom %end riff Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 34, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Slow fog on boo dig every dust speck Last Line: Down to get you in a %taxi honey all of me Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 35, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In boxer shorts a water glass Last Line: Sky closed down %three little words Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 36, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down below blue serge dungeons Last Line: Instead watts eyes for poundcake %have another helping Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 37, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One long for you %two long for me Last Line: What did I do to be so black & blue Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 38, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This heart of mine %motion moves devotion Last Line: Sews up the end of time %extend it forever Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 39, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All of me in you & me Last Line: It's got to be sweetness %soft eyes for me Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 4, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eyes for a level spread Last Line: Once I was blind but now I see %eyes to see Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 40, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting around for vanishment Last Line: Still a stranger in my heartbeat at medium tempo Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 41, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Justice & just us %red dog in sax case Last Line: Lady peaches & cream %sing me song Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 42, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm okay man I don't feel a draft Last Line: Got a home in long island where the grass is green Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 43, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pennies from heaven %review the books Last Line: My three little rhythms & me %happiness Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 44, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't like a whole lotta noise Last Line: All the physicians come to hear the musicians Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 45, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Chill not cool what's in core Last Line: Wind fuss brittle curtains %stir cigarette haze Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 46, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All the ladies come to see me but Last Line: Big eyes between us all Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 47, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No eyes in the jungle you dig Last Line: Got you in his sack %long gone Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 48, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Was it because we was slaves we was ladies Last Line: Poor doves smash before flight Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 49, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stretch & shrink while music from below Last Line: Mitten sounds mate for life Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 5, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eyes to hear touch taste blues gone Last Line: My eyes into blue dream dream stew Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 50, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was a kid in beat of open end days Last Line: Each second it works its way %out an instant ghost Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 51, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Constitutional psychopathic state %manifested by drug addiction Last Line: Clop over endless desert going everywhere & nowhere Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 52, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I was alone I always moved Last Line: What did I do %to be so black & blue Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 53, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing's believing hearing's a bitch Last Line: In anger w/ what keeps moving beyond you %you're stuck Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 54, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yeh it's also a gig Last Line: If you want the bread Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 55, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My chronics part of chronos Last Line: All of me why not take all of me Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 56, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Afternoon session for lady Last Line: Their fingers any which way %whisper off-mike Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 57, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Low grade back up trio fakes it & Last Line: Go man go %have another shot Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 58, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hit the edge & then %slip off the ledge without a sound Last Line: Mothball reek wreck & tamed empty %see what I mean Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 59, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We be whores %get out there to bump the honk Last Line: No matter what %what losers those johns Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 6, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bell eyes ring when you don't swing Last Line: Eyes for blues for love forever Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 60, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always looking for something soft Last Line: Inside each other alone together Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 61, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not for unaware squares in chairs Last Line: Can't you see I can't give you %anything but love Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 62, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let's review the books %what adds up Last Line: Release but fuck what do I realize %dumb eyes %no eyes Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 63, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can't I don't play like that anymore Last Line: Too marvelous for words Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 64, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Herschel evans taps his forehead Last Line: & lady scythe %writes me in her book Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 65, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stoke that smoke & hit that gin Last Line: Right or left of just you just me Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 66, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They come for something else Last Line: Not bad for being good Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 67, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Takes two to tango two to tangle Last Line: Puff & taste %bells %pops Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 68, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How slow did it go %last night she walked out Last Line: Clothe it in another light %eyes & bells %bells & eyes Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 69, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Prez in paris sips pernod %chimes like boo Last Line: Petals flutter down on %porkpie hat crown Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 7, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Back home again in smoke & elixirs Last Line: Down into a horn she hands me %you dig Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 70, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One awakes knowing sleep's forever Last Line: How long before prez slides out of the picture Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 71, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All the way in it Last Line: What can I say Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 72, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you fall into heaven do you land Last Line: I'm back in woodville being born %august 27 1909 Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 73, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Back being born through horn Last Line: Last water circle glows %jones tones grow Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 74, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Men pack up breath in cases Last Line: Sing blues old man %younger than most Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 75, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pack it in jim the job's done Last Line: Cast off gabardine shrouds Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 76, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Johnny deathbed blows cool holes Last Line: In the middle of fucking nowhere Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 77, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rifle & pack sir %don't want anything after a taste Last Line: W/ no eyes but to be %one dot beyond seeing Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 78, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long tongues scrape out the briar patch Last Line: Spits it back as buckshot %duck motherfucker %time's up Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 79, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jo's broken rhythms %sweets' harmon buckeye mute Last Line: Hit it doc let's do blues Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 8, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Slow lambs lope up & down green cartoon hills Last Line: You dig it's a gig Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 80, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a little spanish town %senor prez parks his fez & Last Line: In a world everyone thought they knew %dancing through it Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 81, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blues 'n' bells %imagine me imagine you Last Line: & you're too marvelous for words Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 82, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jammin' the blues gjon %froze frames & drapes Last Line: These foolish things haunt %what your hair covers up Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 83, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not jam sessions kc style but Last Line: Whose moves vibrates teeth %mouth sinuses Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 84, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Von hangman's here %in shit stained kkk sheets Last Line: Who never worries about more helpings Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 85, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They say my work was introspective Last Line: Vulnerable & deep beyond belief Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 86, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: 1955 nervous breakdown %gloom weights drown Last Line: Good at it felt %was I there %were you? Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 87, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't want to play w/ no highschool kids Last Line: Enough to cause doubt & art %to blow a fuse Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 88, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Man am I blue %out there Last Line: No eyes no lies no shit Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 89, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A night person %he entered the evening' Last Line: What art does jim %parts the peepshow veil Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 9, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Vibe tones hair conk sizzle Last Line: What I know %how it works %open secrets Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 90, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Doc cloud %says I'm talking sense now Last Line: In queens w/ all the other ladies Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 91, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies above below go where god moves you Last Line: We change we move on Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 92, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Apostles of lowdown clarinet slur Last Line: Don't hang me in your livingroom Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 93, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was so short-lived it hardly counts Last Line: In california maybe in 1943 %bore him two children Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 94, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All the years of white mystery Last Line: What did I do to be so black & blue Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 95, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We never rehearsed anything Last Line: Until you got tired of hearing him Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 96, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everybody w/ their fucking memories Last Line: They'd know what to do Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 97, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like wb prez died at 50 Last Line: Hit glass they watch me through Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 98, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's not tragic jack Last Line: A million bucks can't touch Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NO EYES: LESTER YOUNG: 99, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tell your story know the lyrics Last Line: Play what stays %yesterdays Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) NOSTALGIA, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: We will see more passing than any Last Line: When life was coming to only moderate harm Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Nostalgia NOTES ON THE ART OF MEMORY, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are a memory system Last Line: Makes us think so Subject(s): Jazz; Memory; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music & Musicians NOTES ON THE ART OF MEMORY, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are a memory system Last Line: That fills us %makes us think so Subject(s): Jazz; Memory; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians NOW'S THE TIME (TAKE 1): 1. CELERITY, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Drizzly dawn. She Last Line: Johnson's hook and jab Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) NOW'S THE TIME (TAKE 1): 2. NOW'S THE TIME, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Later. Mama Last Line: Think I must have said Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) NOW'S THE TIME (TAKE 1): 3. AFTER YOU'RE GONE, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Later. Down to their Last Line: Leave her front door cracked Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) NOW'S THE TIME (TAKE TWO) BIRD, APPLE BOUND, BOARDS KAYCEE, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Perch-poised Last Line: And hold on tight Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) O LORD OF LIGHT! A MYSTIC SAGE RETURNS TO REALMS OF ETERNITY, by ASKIA M. TOURE Poem Source First Line: He is sun-bright myth and cosmic light Last Line: Into infinite realms of joy, mansions of the cosmic light Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sun Ra [herman Blount] (1914-1993) O-JAZZ-O, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the string Last Line: Is love, / is life Subject(s): Jazz ODE TO LANGUAGE, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To put on shoes and be sophisticated Last Line: In san francisco. Only you %are ever different Subject(s): Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Women OF MILES DAVIS, by WILLIAM FORD Poem Source First Line: The pop-out eyes belong to baldwin Last Line: Nameless, we think, but for the music-%with bird close by and trane coming on Subject(s): Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music And Musicians OF WALTER WHITE'S FATHER IN THE RAIN, by JR. HOUSTON A. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Denied %like bessie Last Line: Passing in the rain, separate, %and forever unequalled Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Racism; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) OHNEDARUTH, by ANGELA JACKSON Poem Source First Line: My throats Last Line: Yo mouth knows sweet songs. %I remember Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Saxophones OHNEDARUTH'S DAY BEGUN, by NATHANIEL MACKEY Poem Source First Line: There I sit afloat in Last Line: Lifted skirts Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians OKRA TO GREENS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF SOUND, DOWNTOWN, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I might be in slug's Last Line: It's ten years later/ & the changes are transcribed Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians OL' BUNK'S BAND, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: These are men! The gaunt, unforesold, the vocal Last Line: These are men, men, men Subject(s): Bands; Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Music & Musicians; Orchestras OL' BUNK'S BAND, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are men! The gaunt, unforesold, the vocal Last Line: Need no more! These are men! %men Subject(s): Bands; Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Music And Musicians ON 52ND STREET, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down sat bud, raised his hands Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Night Clubs; Jazz; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ON THE CORNER, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing on the corner Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Tatum, Art (1910-1956) ON THE CORNER, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing on the corner Last Line: I can't hardly wait, he said Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Tatum, Art (1910-1956) ON THE DEATH OF JAZZ, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me jazz is dead Last Line: And like some politicians dead, has not been buried yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians ONE, by GILLIAN CONOLEY Poem Source First Line: Along the alleys I can hear the love songs Last Line: Looking for me Subject(s): Jazz; Love; Music And Musicians ONE OF THREE MUSICIANS, by STEPHEN JONAS Poem Source First Line: The first time I heard ornette Last Line: Free associates come in %to play Subject(s): Coleman, Orenette (b. 1930); Jazz; Music And Musicians ORNITHOLOGY, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone to seed, ailanthus, the poverty Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians ORNITHOLOGY, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gone to seed, ailanthus, the poverty Last Line: If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians ORNITHOLOGY: GENEALOGY, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Oh, my, addie Last Line: She became his bride Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) OUT OF NOWHERE, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Whispers: listen Last Line: Too pleased with himself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) OUTSIDE THE CAPSULE, SELS., by ANDRE HODEIR Poem Source First Line: By salt and by mercury Last Line: Like all other b-flats Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians PARKER'S MOOD, by CLARENCE BEEKS Poem Source First Line: Come with me, %if you want to go to kansas city Last Line: Don't cry for me, %cause I'm going to kansas city Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians PEACE ON EARTH, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tunes come to me at morning Last Line: A love supreme: Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians PENNIES FROM HEAVEN: WHAM BAM, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: A lush shadow-shape Last Line: See you soon Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) PHAROAH SANDERS, IN THE FLESH, by GEORGE BOWERING Poem Source First Line: Walking east on 3rd street Last Line: That's really pharoah sanders Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sanders, Pharoah (b. 1940) PIAF AND HOLIDAY GO OUT, by CAROL PEPPIS BERGE Poem Source First Line: Bracelet eat into the flesh / the gangrene of Last Line: It will be easier. Sing it loud Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Piaf, Edith (1915-1963); Singing And Singers PLAYING FOR TIME, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: We're walking down grant through chinatown Last Line: Their four good hands, just playing for time Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians PLAYING THE INVISIBLE SAXOPHONE EN EL COMBO DE LA ESTRELLAS, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of these days I'm gonna write a real performance poem Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets PLAYING THE INVISIBLE SAXOPHONE EN EL COMBO DE LA ESTRELLAS, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of these days I'm gonna write a real performance poem Last Line: As I play the invisible saxophone en el combo de las estrellas Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets PLEA FOR MY HEART'S SAKE, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know you think of me when you are lonely Last Line: Then love me also in your happiness Subject(s): Jazz; Love; Music And Musicians PLEA FOR WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION, by WILLIAM WANTLING Poem Source First Line: To make up for t. Monk Last Line: Always %pain Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians PLUCKING OUT A RHYTHM, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Start with a simple room Last Line: And the figure is completely %out of sight Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians POEM FOR DIZZY, by ELIZABETH S. ADCOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet and sly, you were all business when the old bent- Last Line: The one about hope. The one abut oldest love Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Betty Subject(s): Gillespie, Dizzy (1917-1993); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets POEM IN THE SHAPE OF THE SAXOPHONE, by TERRY RANDOLPH HUMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Refracted through years, this neon light comes back Last Line: Curve of the horn's cold body, %starts counting time Alternate Author Name(s): Hummer, T. R. Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Saxophones POETRY MAKES RHYTHM IN PHILOSOPHY, by ISHMAEL REED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe it was the bichot Last Line: Entered the room Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets POST SEQUENCE DRIFT: BLUES 1, by BARRY WALLENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: You %catch my breath with your waking Last Line: No rest in my slumber %no sugar in my bowl Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians POST SEQUENCE DRIFT: BLUES 2, by BARRY WALLENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Such accidents do happen Last Line: They can barely read what they say, %and when they do, they forget Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians POSTCARD AT VERTIGO BOOKS IN D. C., SELS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the photo of billie holiday at the 1957 newport jazz festival Last Line: Glamour-we look for it and it's not there Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Famous People; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Photography And Photographers; Singing And Singers PRESENTING EUSTACIA BEAUCHARD: WARD 3, by JAMES NOLAN Poem Source First Line: Eustacia beauchard %combed her bozzo Last Line: For the night Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians PRIMA DONNA OF THE NEGRO JAZZ ORCHESTRA, by ELLEN COIT ELLIOTT Poem Text First Line: I am the lemon-lily queen Last Line: And my earrings tremble and shine. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs PROJECTION, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day when the savoy Last Line: Wonderful! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Divine, Father (george Baker, 1877-1965); Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks QUEEN OF THE BLUES, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mame was singing Last Line: Their hats to a queen? Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs QUEEN OF THE BLUES, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mame was singing Last Line: Why don't they tip %their hats to a queen? Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers REAL JAZZ, by MICHAEL CHITWOOD Poem Source First Line: I let my coat do my talking Last Line: And the empty hanger swings %and keeps the beat %as you walk off down the hall Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians RECORD 4, by RONALD ERNEST OVERTON Poem Source First Line: Eric dolphy Last Line: Various complications, %mathematical and clear Subject(s): Dolphy, Eric (1928-1964); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings RECOUNTING OF GODS, by CAROL PEPPIS BERGE Poem Source First Line: My own history bores me Last Line: Howls at the audience of will, %in the face of beauty Subject(s): Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music And Musicians; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941) REFUGE AT THE ONE STEP DOWN, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: Shrapnel lives in morton's neck, so his head stays Last Line: This time nobody's talking. Morton is the moment %you open the door after a long ride home in the da Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians REPETITION (TAKE 1), by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Lester knows his horn, they said Last Line: Hoping some lester rubbed off, some sunk in Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) RESONANCE, by CHRISTOPHER GILBERT Poem Source First Line: In a back room %upstairs crouched over crystal Last Line: On the turntable, a lost double %octave rolling round through the air Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians RETURN, by RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: The broken victrola on your table Last Line: Your deep breath the rhythm of its tide Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians REVELATION, by STANLEY CROUCH Poem Source First Line: To tremble in prayer and trepidation Last Line: As an agony too powerful for this fever blister of flesh! Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians RICHARD'S BLUES, by RICHARD CECIL Poem Source First Line: At three a.M., alone, not sleepy Last Line: Who wrote and sang their high passion Subject(s): Blues (music); Charles, Ray (b. 1930); Jazz; Music And Musicians ROOTS, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are seven steps to heaven Last Line: Where his heart has found its roots Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians ROSE SOLITUDE; FOR DUKE ELLINGTON, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am essence of rose solitude Last Line: Never dies Subject(s): Ellington, Edward Kennedy ('duke'); Jazz; Music & Musicians ROUND MIDNIGHT, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Black as hell's chimney Last Line: Bed clothes, knees to nose Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) SAINTS OF JAZZ, by YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH YEVTUSHENKO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The saints of jazz are playing Last Line: Is in you, o noblest sunset Alternate Author Name(s): Evtushenko, Evgeni Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians SATCHMO, by YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH YEVTUSHENKO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great satchmo plays all bathed in sweat Last Line: To the better player, %to louis! Alternate Author Name(s): Evtushenko, Evgeni Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Armstrong, Louis (1900-1971); Jazz; Music And Musicians SATIN DOLL', by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's probably the year her marriage Last Line: Until this is a song she can dance with too, %and I can let her go Subject(s): Aunts; Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); Jazz; Music And Musicians SCRAPPLE FROM THE APPLE, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Ladies and gentlemen Last Line: Proceeds the son %laughs Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) SHADOWS, by RICHARD JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What a consoling poem this will be if the roadside Last Line: Feeling the world move, trying to stay this way forever Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians SHAKING HANDS WITH MONGO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mongo's open hands: Last Line: Who shot his life away %for a bag of tecata %in a harlem bar%forty years ago Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Santamaria, Mongo (b. 1922) SICK MAN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bands of black men seem to be drifting in air Last Line: The peaceful, blissful words, well-tuned, well-sung, well-spoken Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians SINGER, by GERALD WILLIAM BARRAX Poem Source First Line: Black angel %doing what she's gotta do Last Line: Doing what they've gotta do %black angels Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians SINGER, by COLLEEN JOHNSON MCELROY Poem Source First Line: She sings, looks young Last Line: Carrying the song like a crown Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers SITTING ON OTHER PEOPLE'S CARS, by PAUL BEATTY Poem Source First Line: This mingus cd %reminds you of me Last Line: That im just now hearin - still give me the chills Subject(s): Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music And Musicians SITTING WITH LESTER YOUNG, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk must become your light Last Line: As holy silence means the most Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Young, Lester ("prez") (1909-1959) SLEEP, AFTER RAY CHARLES SHOW AND HURRICANE REPORT, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A storm named for a woman Subject(s): Charles, Ray (b. 1930); Jazz; Music & Musicians SLEEP, AFTER RAY CHARLES SHOW AND HURRICANE REPORT, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A storm named for a woman Last Line: Every one regardless Subject(s): Charles, Ray (b. 1930); Jazz; Music And Musicians SNAKE-BACK SOLO #1, by QUINCY TROUPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With the music up high Last Line: Feeding time can become a window %to see through Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians SNOWMELT FROM YESTERYEARS, by JOHN MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: They said there were those who dig and those who blow Last Line: Watch your feet when you skull catches %the beat Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets SOLEA, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are rapists / out there Last Line: Anymore Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Subject(s): Cities; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Rape; Urban Life SOLEDAD, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked, he lies in the blinded room Last Line: Oh swings: beyond complete immortal now. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs SOME METAPHYSICS OF JUNIOR WELLS, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: A night universe scallop-edged with his faces Last Line: They are all diferent, easy to tell apart. %they were beginning, birth, newness, and dawn Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Wells, Junior (1934-1998) SOMETHING TO REMEMBER ME BY, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Well then, now, welcome Last Line: You have a long and %a prosperous stay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) SOMETIME DURING ETERNITY, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From the usual unreliable sources %real dead Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians SONG FOR BILLIE HOLIDAY, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can purge my heart Last Line: Where? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks SONG FOR JEANNIE, by BILL TREMBLAY Poem Source First Line: This is a song for you about you Last Line: Dance, little flower of the womb, dance now! Subject(s): Jazz; Love - Loss Of; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians SONG IS YOU, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Prof, who wasn't, but Last Line: Okay, charlie says %plotting his revenge Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) SONG OF THE YELLOW STAR, by RICHARD BURNS Poem Source First Line: I sing you the song of the yellow star Last Line: Twelve roses soon will be mine Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians SONNETS - REALITIES: 11, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God pity me whom(god distinctly has Last Line: Steps parting the tousle of saxophonic brogue Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians SONNY GREER, by HOWARD HART Poem Source First Line: I remember nights you carried Last Line: And a bell on his toe Subject(s): Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); Greer, Sonny (1895-1982); Jazz; Music And Musicians SOUTHERN ROAD, by MWATABU OKANTAH Poem Source First Line: You walked dusty dry roads Last Line: Is in brown love ... Subject(s): Brown, Sterling (1901-1989); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Racism; Southern States SPEED BALL, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Didn't chet baker know Last Line: Greer, pulled him from that hotel window Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Drugs And Drug Abuse; Jazz; Music And Musicians STELLA BY STARLIGHT, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: My mother couldn't understand how my father, a man stuffed so full Last Line: Their dark faces reflected the light and were shining Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parents STEREO TIME WITH BOOKER LITTLE, by RICK MADIGAN Poem Source First Line: One time in the middle of 'goin' down slow' Last Line: And roy haynes in full glide above the drums Subject(s): Jazz; Little, Booker (1938-1961); Music And Musicians STOP-TIME, by RODERICK HARTIGH JELLEMA Poem Source First Line: Paul stewart from the college was black (was the point) Last Line: Man I didn't mean it when I made you lie to me Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music And Musicians STRANGE FRUIT, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wailing of a clarinet Last Line: Which might stop a child from becoming strange fruit Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians STRANGE FRUIT, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was out in the early evening, taking a walk in the fields to think about this Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Lynching; Music & Musicians; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry STRANGE FRUIT, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was out in the early evening, taking a walk in the fields to think about this Last Line: My feet betray me, dance anyway from this killing tree Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Lynching; Music And Musicians; Racism STRINGFIVW, by RICHARD KOSTELANETZ Poem Source First Line: Stringfiveteranciderideafencerebrumblendivestablishmentertaininteger- Last Line: Imaloventtomboycotterracetylenervate Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians STRINGFOUR, by RICHARD KOSTELANETZ Poem Source First Line: Stringfourselvestrymandolingerbillowbrowboatmealtimetablemi- Last Line: Timekeeperperpendicularkspurpleafletup Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians STUFFY TURKEY, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: I limp along, looking for feathers Last Line: Can you hear me above all this jazz? Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians; Turkeys SUBSTITUTE BASSIST, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: During the very rich times of the duke Last Line: As though carving a scar in the bark, %willow weep for me Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; New Orleans SUNDAYS OF SATIN-LEGS SMITH, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inamoratas, with an approbation Last Line: Her body like summer earth, %receptive, soft, and absolute Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music And Musicians SUNDOWN BLUES, by RAYMOND RICHARD PATTERSON Poem Source First Line: Sun going down Last Line: I didn't think this day would end Alternate Author Name(s): Patterson, Ray Subject(s): Blues (music); Evening; Jazz; Music And Musicians SUSPENSION: JUNIOR WELLS ON A SMALL STAGE, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: As the phobic said: it is torture Last Line: A piece of cigarette pack %cellophane a blade of grass and fly it to their unfinished nest Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Wells, Junior (1934-1998) TAKIN' OFF, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Residing at the woodside Last Line: Old time-y %kaycee variations Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) TAPPING; FOR BABY LAURENCE AND OTHER TAP DANCERS, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I pat this floor Last Line: Go hmmmp hmmmmp hmmmmmp Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Jazz; Music & Musicians THE BIRD, THE BIRD, THE BIRD, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the spring flowers I likewise am Last Line: Implacable, but content Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955) THE BLACK BACK-UPS, by KATE RUSHIN Poem Full Text Recitation by Author First Line: This is dedicated to merry clayton, fontella bass, vonetta Alternate Author Name(s): Rushin, Donna Kate Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; African Americans - Women; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Popular Culture - United States; Singing & Singers; Women's Rights; Songs; Feminism THE BUDDY BOLDEN CYLINDER, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It doesn't exist, I know, but I love Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bolden, Buddy (1877-1931); Jazz; Music & Musicians THE DAWN-STAR MAIDEN AND THE HONEY BLOSSOM BLUES, by CHARLES R. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: Sing us a dance in jazz-land numbers Last Line: Dance the honey-blossom blues! Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians THE DAY LADY DIED, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is 12:20 in new york a friday Last Line: Minneapolis, mn, www.Coffeehousepress.Com Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Men; Music & Musicians; Music, Rock; Singing & Singers; Rock & Roll; Songs THE DREAM SONGS: 68, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard, could be, a hey there from the wing Last Line: Black to the birds instead Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Songs THE FANTASTIC NAMES OF JAZZ, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zoot sims, joshua redman Last Line: And of course jelly roll morton. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Names THE FIFTIES, by MARVIN BELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miles davis is on a night off Subject(s): Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music & Musicians THE GLORY TRUMPETER, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old eddie's face, wrinkled with river lights Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music & Musicians THE HISTORY OF JAZZ, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves of blue came drifting down Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians THE JAZZ GIRL, by MYRTLE HICKEY MCCORMACK HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Like a butterfly that flits from flower to flower Last Line: In her jazz -- she forgot all maidenly duty. Subject(s): Aging; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Women THE MAN WITH THE SAXOPHONE, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poet's Biography First Line: New york. 5 a.M. Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Cities; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Urban Life THE POSTCARD AT VERTIGO BOOKS IN D. C., SELS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the photo of billie holiday at the 1957 newport jazz festival Last Line: Look for it and it’s not there Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Famous People; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Photography & Photographers; Singing & Singers THE SUNDAYS OF SATIN-LEGS SMITH, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inamoratas, with an approbation Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks THE THIRD SERMON ON THE WARPLAND, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is a beautiful place Last Line: You could make music too / the blackblues Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Phoenix (mythical Bird) THE WEARY BLUES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Droning a drowsy syncopated tune Last Line: He slept like a rock or a man that's dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks THE WIDOW'S JAZZ, by MINA LOY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white flesh quakes to the negro soul Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Chicago; Jazz; Music & Musicians THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE ME, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Hootie's band blows Last Line: Seemed to take a week Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) THINGS TO COME, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Basie and lester's Last Line: He damn well pleases Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) THIRD SERMON ON THE WARPLAND, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is a beautiful place Last Line: The dust, as they say, settled Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians THIS IS ALWAYS, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Tell me prof put 'is foot in 'is butt Last Line: S that damned habit %still Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) THREE LOVE POEMS BY A NATIVE: 1. NEW ORLEANS, by MAXINE CASSIN Poem Source First Line: You have to be almost on top of the mart Last Line: Suddenly encounter each other at their far reaches Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; New Orleans THREE LOVE POEMS BY A NATIVE: 2. BASTILLE DAY, by MAXINE CASSIN Poem Source First Line: What do we do when the fanfare ends? Last Line: Beside the presbytere Subject(s): Holidays; Jazz; Music And Musicians; New Orleans THREE LOVE POEMS BY A NATIVE: 3. JAZZ FUNERAL, by MAXINE CASSIN Poem Source First Line: As they cut the body loose Last Line: Taunting jupiter Subject(s): Funerals; Jazz; Music And Musicians; New Orleans THREE OF FOUR SHADES OF BLUE, by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These days in europe no one is safe Last Line: Move to mexico before the next night rain Subject(s): Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music And Musicians; Terrorism THREE OF FOUR SHADES OF BLUE (2), by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The stress of gijon are wider in the dark Last Line: Jazz club like a recently divorced tourist Subject(s): Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music And Musicians TIMES, by THOMAS ELIAS WEATHERLY Poem Source First Line: Truly alone muley Last Line: Human blows sound blues Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Language; Music And Musicians TIN ROOF BLUES, by ROBERT SARGENT Poem Source First Line: In the 40's the condon group made a 'tin roof blues' Last Line: Twenty years of learning to do it right Subject(s): Condon, Eddie (1905-1973); Jazz; Music And Musicians TO THE PIANIST BILL EVANS, by BILL ZAVATSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I hear you Last Line: On taking our hands Subject(s): Evans, Bill (1929-1980); Jazz; Music & Musicians TOBACCO WAREHOUSE BLUES, by JR. HOUSTON A. BAKER Poem Source First Line: The bluesman in pungent mood Last Line: A freight-train rider -- a mean primer and curer %of men Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians TORCH SONGS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would speak of that grief Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Grief; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Love; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Sorrow; Sadness TORCH SONGS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would speak of that grief Last Line: Of someone you might always love Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Grief; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Love; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) TOUCHING THE PAST, by ROBERT SARGENT Poem Source First Line: Uptown new orleans, 1940, %and here was a man of the right color Last Line: Thinking about it, smiling Subject(s): Bolden, Buddy (1877-1931); Jazz; Music And Musicians; New Orleans TRANE, by EDWARD KAMAU BRATHWAITE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Propped against the crowded bar Last Line: And pours his old unhappy longing in the saxophone Alternate Author Name(s): Brathwaite, Kamau Variant Title(s): Naim Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians TREATMENT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is a 16mm film of 7 minutes in which no words are spoken Last Line: The nave as if they were boarding a bus Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Children; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sanders, Pharoah (b. 1940) TUSKEGEE EXPERIMENT, by SADIQ Poem Source First Line: While sidney bechet was Last Line: No treatment! No treatment! Subject(s): African Americans; Bechet, Sidney Joseph (1897-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians TWILIGHT SEDUCTION, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because duke's voice Last Line: Your lips to open up %the sky & let in %the night Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); Jazz; Music And Musicians UN POCO LOCO, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bud powell's story is never complete Last Line: As the bastard spirit beyond her strength Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Powell, Bud (earl) (1924-1966) UN POCO LOCO, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bud powell's story is never complete Last Line: As the bastard spirit beyond her strength Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Powell, Bud (earl) (1924-1966) UNDERGROUND (BLACK CAT), by CONRAD KENT RIVERS Poem Source First Line: Under bright city lights Last Line: I swing through the city full of blues Subject(s): Blues (music); Cities; Jazz; Music And Musicians UNRELENTING FLOOD, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black key. White key. No Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Tatum, Art (1910-1956) UNRELENTING FLOOD, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black key. White key. No Last Line: Tethering us all to our star Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Tatum, Art (1910-1956) UP ON THE SPOON, by STANLEY CROUCH Poem Source First Line: That horn chased me Last Line: Please tell me I'll get well Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) VACUUMING, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Saturdays I live for an hour inside this bellowing Last Line: It is the very bugle call of gabriel, and this is the last day Subject(s): Birds; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sound VALENTINE'S DAY, by KENNETH MAY Poem Source First Line: Charlie parker's on the off ramp Last Line: American rose should last at least a week Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) VARIATIONS FOR A SUMMER EVENING, by MICHAEL ANANIA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you and goodbye' Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Roach, Max (b. 1924); Young, Lester ('prez') (1909-1959) VENICE BEACH: BRIEF SONG, by DOROTHY BARRESI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe zizi is right Subject(s): Beiderbecke, Bix (1903-1931); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Music, Rock; Rock & Roll VENICE BEACH: BRIEF SONG, by DOROTHY BARRESI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe zizi is right Last Line: To be truly blonde, and just once %blown away, flying and flying and flying Subject(s): Beiderbecke, Bix (1903-1931); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Music, Rock WALKING PARKER HOME, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet beats of jazz impaled on slivers of wind Last Line: In raging fires of love. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955) WANDA'S BLUES, by JANE MARVEL COOPER Poem Source First Line: Wanda's daddy was a railroadman, she was his little wife Last Line: Wanda-a-a-a the steam whistle hollered. O my american refrain! Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians WAR MEMOIR: JAZZ, DON'T LISTEN TO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning, in the wet Last Line: And feel, & die. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians WE DANCE LIKE ELLA RIFFS, by CAROLYN M. RODGERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room was a Last Line: Round theme %any one %of us- %an infinite, essential note %sounding down this world Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Fitzgerald, Ella (1918-1996); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers WELL YOU NEEDN'T, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: Find uncle fred's photograph Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians WEST COAST SOUNDS ?ÇÖ 1956, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: San fran, hipster land Last Line: For mexico. / me too Subject(s): Jazz; Poetry And Poetry; California WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO, by JOSEPH HEITHAUS Poem Source First Line: You can see her, hair down, sipping a coke Last Line: Their legs loose and lifeless in air Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers WHAT YOU CAN'T SEE, by KAREN CHASE Poem Source First Line: In the winter stadium, picturing Last Line: Clean this morning, dirt red as blush Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers WHITMAN, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On long island, they moved my clapboard house Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Poetry & Poets; Popular Culture - United States; United States; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); America WHITMAN, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On long island, they moved my clapboard house Last Line: To find me now will cost you everything Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955); Poetry And Poets; Popular Culture - United States; United States; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WIDOW'S JAZZ, by MINA LOY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white flesh quakes to the negro soul Last Line: Of unpeopled space Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Chicago; Jazz; Music And Musicians WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: I went to the last Last Line: Dead last Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Dancing And Dancers; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Labor And Laborers; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers WORDS FOR JAZZ PERHAPS: BUD FREEMAN IN BELFAST, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fog horn and factory siren intercept Last Line: In the cotton wool from aspirin bottles? Subject(s): Freeman, Bud (1906-1991); Jazz; Music And Musicians WORDS FOR JAZZ PERHAPS: ELEGY FOR FATS WALLER, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lighting up, lest all our hearts should break Last Line: The shook the shake the sheikh of araby Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Waller, Fats (thomas Wright) (1904-1943) WORDS FOR JAZZ PERHAPS: TO BESSIE SMITH, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You bring from chattanooga tennessee Last Line: Each longed-for holiday, each terminal Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) WORDS FOR JAZZ PERHAPS: TO BIX BEIDERBECKE, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In hotel rooms, in digs you went to school Last Line: That parabola from blues to barrelhouse Subject(s): Beiderbecke, Bix (1903-1931); Jazz; Music And Musicians WRAP YOUR TROUBLES IN DREAMS, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: The kick Last Line: You %sound %good to %mama %now Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) YARDBIRD'S SKULL, by OWEN DODSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bird is lost Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Skulls; Negroes; American Blacks YARDBIRD'S SKULL, by OWEN DODSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bird is lost Last Line: Come sing, come sing, come sing sing %and sing Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955); Skulls YOU CAN'T RHUMBOOGIE IN A BALL AND CHAIN, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You called the blues' loose black belly lover Last Line: "“it’s your shade, this blood dress,” we say. “it’s you." Subject(s): Jazz; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music & Musicians YOU CAN'T RHUMBOOGIE IN A BALL AND CHAIN, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You called the blues' loose black belly lover Last Line: It's your shade, this blood dress,' we say. 'it's you.' Subject(s): Jazz; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music And Musicians ZIMMER'S LAST GIG, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Listening to hard bop Last Line: Her ear, she never %would have bounced Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians |
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