SDPF24: And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead

Poetry Reading (with local poets Adrian Arancibia, Kassy Lee, and Michael Klam) + Film Screening (of Billy Woodberry’s 2015 “And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead”) inspired by the late surrealist jazz Beat poet Bob Kaufman.

From City Lights Books website: “Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) was one of the most important–and most original–poets of the twentieth century. He is among the inaugurators of what today is characterized as the Afro-Surreal, uniting the surrealist practice of automatic writing with the jazz concept of spontaneous composition. He seldom wrote his poems down and often discarded those he did, leaving them to be rescued by others. He was also a legendary figure of the Beat Generation, known as much for hopping on tables to declaim his poetry as for maintaining a monastic silence for months or even years at a time.”