Poet Jennifer Burd & Musician Laszlo Slomovits Read & Perform Laszlo’s Original Songs Set to Poetry

In conjunction with our, "We Care Friday," EVERYbody Reads is very please and proud to announce that we will be joined by poet Jennifer Bird and musician Laszlo Slomovits!

Poet Jennifer Burd and musician Laszlo Slomovits read and perform Laszlo’s original song settings of both classic and contemporary poetry.

There is an ancient tradition, throughout the world, of poetry not only being read from books but also set to music and sung. Poet Jennifer Burd joins Laszlo Slomovits, award-winning songwriter, composer and singer, to present a program of poetry read and sung. The poems range from the transcendent, spiritual lyrics of the 12th and 13th Century Sufi mystics, Rumi and Hafiz, to the classic poems of the American greats, Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, right up to such contemporary poets as Dan Gerber and Linda Nemec Foster. The event also features Jennifer’s lyric poetry, which Laszlo has set to music, as well as the reading of her widely published haiku, to which Laszlo responds with various folk flutes in a spontaneous, improvised dialogue between words and music. With dynamic readings, gorgeous melodies and lively rhythms, the poems dance off the page, as Jennifer and Laszlo bring the magic of live reading and music to timeless lyrics.

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