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With lyrics by Ishmael Reed, "Monster Love" - originally written for Grammy Award-winning artist Macy Gray - will be featured on the new recording by the BlackMusic Infinity Quartet, as reported in The Louisiana Weekly: http://www.louisianaweekly.com/only-in-new-orleans/

"Across the intersection from the flagpole is another, even more ambitious project by David Hammons: an impossibly narrow Charleston single house. Situated diagonally on the corner lot and built to be not much wider than a single doorway, it is a pastiche of classic Charleston building techniques, with three types of traditional roofing and five types of siding.

(San Francisco, CA, February 28, 2012) – SFJAZZ, the leading nonprofit jazz organization on the West Coast, the presenter of the SFJAZZ Spring Season 2012 running now through June 22, and the San Francisco Jazz Festival, today announced the appointment of Ishmael Reed as the first SFJAZZ Poet Laureate. This appointment will serve to expand and promote the role of poetry and spoken word in jazz and to continue celebrating jazz as a living art form built on a constantly evolving tradition.

Follow the link below and Click the arrow on the audio player to hear Ishmael Reed read this poem. You can also download the recording or subscribe to Slate's Poetry Podcast on iTunes.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/2011/08/scrub_jays.html