Philly-LA Jazz & Poetry with Heat Press: ELLIOTT LEVIN, DON PRESTON, ERIC PRIESTLEY, CHARLES BIVINS and works of the late WILL PERKINS

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Philly-LA Jazz & Poetry with Heat Press: ELLIOTT LEVIN, DON PRESTON, ERIC PRIESTLEY, CHARLES BIVINS and works of the late WILL PERKINS




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A night of poetry and jazz. ELLIOTT LEVIN, a Philly-based saxophonist and poet, has played with avant-gardists Cecil Taylor, Odean Pope, and members of the Sun Ra Arkestra. ERIC PRIESTLEY (Abracadabra) was a founding member of the Watts Writers Workshop and is author of Raw Dog (Holloway). CHARLES BIVINS (Music in Silence) is the subject of a short documentary, Savage Rose, by Linda Janakos. Texts of the late Philly performance poet WILL PERKINS (!Scat) will be read by editor C. Natale Peditto.

Office Fridge Poetry




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Someone at work had a little fun with our magnetic poetry set. Wonder how long before someone complains about one of them :)

Boston - Back Bay: Boston Public Library McKim Building - Music and Poetry




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Music and Poetry, one of three colossal double bronze doors leading from the Darmouth street vestibule into the entrance hall of the Boston Public Library McKim building, was designed by Daniel Chester French and dedicated on November 20, 1904. The other pairs of doors represent Knowledge and Wisdom, and Truth and Romance.

The Boston Public Library McKim Building, located on Boylston Street between Dartmouth and Exeter Streets, was built in 1895 by Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead & White. Consisting of a three-story, monumental free-standing block in the style of an Italian Renaissance palace surrounding an open courtyard, McKim's design was one of the earliest successful examples of Renaissance Beaux-Arts Classicism in America, and set the precedent for grand scale urban libraries. In 1972, the Philip Johnson-designed late modernist wing was added to the Central Library location. The Boston Public Library system, established in 1848, was the country's first publicly supported municipal library, its first large library open to the public and its first to allow citizens to borrow books. There are currently twenty-six branches in the system.

In 2007, Boston Public Library was ranked #90 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.

Boston Public Library National Register #73000317 (1973)