Join us for an exciting afternoon of jazz & poetry with internationally acclaimed artists!  

Jay Rodriguez is a Grammy Nominated Saxophonist, Flautist, Clarinetist, Film Composer, Producer and Arranger. Jay Rodriguez is a visionary artist. He will be accompanied by Yayoi Ikawa on piano/keyboards and Xavier Hill on drums.

E.J. Antonio has received fellowships in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Hurston/Wright Foundation and the Cave Canem Foundation and is a founding board member of One Breath Rising.

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is a poet, author, and curator. Cheryl’s verse memoir, Mama Phife Represents, stands as a tribute to her late son, hip hop icon Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor of A Tribe Called Quest.  

Robert Anthony Gibbons has been published in over thirty literary magazines and in several notable anthologies, and is on the board of One Breath Rising.