Jazzetry

Our very own Tyson Bennett and Jesse Ryan Hunter will be at the Boulder Public Library supporting Jovan Mays and friends for the Jaipur Lit Fest this Sunday from 230-330p!! Come say heyyyyyyy!!

🌼Always late and worth the wait 🌼

Kicking off the introductions for Saturday’s event Trident Booksellers and Cafe we have a Jazzetry favorite. Come bid farewell to Haven Nasif as we send her off to college in style…

“Haven Nasif is an 18 year old poet born and raised in Boulder, Colorado. She has been doing Jazzetry for years and loves everyone like family. She plans to go to University of Oregon to study English, and hopes to continue writing poetry that means something to people. You can see her previous work on her instagram .nasif!”

The time is nigh!!

We’re always jazzed to welcome a first-timer, so please put your hands together for 👏🏼👏🏼

Tomorrow night at Junkyard Social Club 6-9P, all ages!!

“Kali Love loves you. They basically love everyone. Unless you’re sh*tty. Please don’t be sh*tty. They hope to help others find healing and wholeness. They are a multi-genre writer, performer, and activist, having created ritual, dance, and theater works with The Shamanic Dolls, Crescent Dance Project, and in The Ballet of Masculine and Feminine Divinities. They have toured with their music and poetry as Many Medicines and now the local funk band The Pamlico Sound. Kali is editor and community outreach at South Broadway Press and their contributions have included Queen City Companion, Punketry, Howl at the Moon, Unpact and more. Through their work in Communitive Justice, they are committed to supporting community education, conflict resolution, and expression. Find them on Insta as many medicines or kaliheals. They would love to talk with you about their writing, their band, or their app… and they hope you all enjoy your choices.”

Next up on the docket… (THIS Saturday 6-9P) this absolute dreamboat really needs no introduction, but we’ll do it anyway. Pleaaaaase welcome aka STEEZY back to the stage 🥳

“Stina French is a college instructor and performer who specializes in vulnerable and graphic representations of sexuality, repression, and the healing process. She writes erotic mystery, magic-realist flash memoir, and poetry. She’s featured in many Colorado venues, and her work is upcoming in a Sugarbutch anthology, and has appeared in Jen Pastiloff's Manifest Station, Heavy Feather Review, South Broadway Ghost Society, Punch Drunk Press, among others. She leads monthly generative writing workshops and hosts the event, "listen to your skin: an erotic open-mic series" (last Sunday of each month, usually via zoom). She wears welts from the Bible Belt, and is currently editing Take The Fruit, Flood The Desert: A Religious Trauma Abuse Anthology. She's working on a manuscript, Also Arc, Also Offering, a Southern-q***rdo memoir. Find her on IG at sister_rainbow_scream or visit her website, sisterrainbowscream.com.”

🌺 LET THE COUNTDOWN BEGIN 🌺

3 firsts coinciding this Saturday…

1) Jazzetry’s first trip over to Junkyard Social Club!! Can’t say enough about how wonderful this space is.

2) Jazzetry’s first foray into incorporating circus performances/movement alongside Von Disco, courtesy of The Fractal Society!!

3) Jazzetry is BEYOND electrified to welcome someone we’ve been after for awhiiiile… 🤩🤩🤩

“Franklin Cruz is a q***r latin dancer, poet born in Idaho, raised Texan and polished in Denver. Born from an immigrant family his work has placed him in science museums, environmental spaces, as an emcee and poet for dance & poetry competitions and conferences. He aims for specificity over simplicity, encompassing self love, conservation, immigration, and culture.”

Couldn’t be more excited to announce that Jazzetry will be taking another field trip this weekend…

Catch us on 4/9 at in honor of Pauli Murray with an evening of poetry, music, and reflection.

This lineup is 🔥🔥🔥

Von Disco supporting: Jovan Mays Morgynne Tora, Mario Olvera and Brice Maiurro with ALOC Media capturing the magic, just like old times!!