Cliff Fyman’s Taxi Night

Review by Jim Cohn

DEC 21-JAN 22 | Poetry

In the late spring of 2021, as life in the United States was sputtering back to life after the pandemic, Cliff Fyman’s Taxi Night was a vivid reminder of the way the talk had been going full throttle before everything came to a crashing halt.

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By Morgan Vo

MARCH 2023 | Poetry

Morgan Võ (b. 1989) is a poet concerned with resonance, contingency, difficulty understanding, and the presence of the dead among the living; he is also a librarian-in-training, and a current member of the Poetry Project Newsletter editorial collective.

Oluzayo: African Music Futures

By Martin Longley

JULY/AUG 2023 | Music

In the Zulu language, Oluzayo means “what lies ahead," and this five-day festival aimed to present new African music that circumvented familiar patterns of reception and presentation. The organization behind this festival is the Cologne-based African Futures, regularly presenting a program of panels, lectures, workshops and discussions. Innovation wasn’t always compulsory, as some of the acts involved maintained deep traditional roots. Whatever might be “new” usually possessed familiar traits and elements at the core of its style.

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By Sophia Dahlin

DEC 22–JAN 23 | Poetry

Sophia Dahlin is a poet in the East Bay, where she leads generative poetry workshops and teaches youth creative writing. With Jacob Kahn, she runs a small chapbook press called Eyelet and a reading series called Islet. Her first book, Natch, came out from City Lights Books in 2020.