Also holding forth will be performance poet Sekou Sundiata. Providing the inspiration that night will be musical activist, composer and pianist Jon Jang, who blends traditional Chinese music into contemporary jazz. Antoni's Divina Trace retells Caribbean history through its collection of many versions of the story of a black Madonna rooted in the Ramayana myths, and is credited with injecting postmodernism into postcolonial Caribbean literature. He will be joined by New York state poet laureate Sharon Olds, known for her clear-spoken distillations of the sacred and the profane hidden in plain sight in the domestic and mundane. SoCal pianist Mike Wofford, accompanist to jazz divas and sensitive interpreter of Jerome Kern classics, is their musical complement.
Intersections runs five nights.
Russell Banks, Chase Twichell and Andrew Hill. Sekou Sundiata, Rikki Ducornet and Jon Jang. Robert Antoni, Denise Chavez and J.D. Parran. John Wideman, Sharon Olds and Mike Wofford. Metro Publishing Inc. Metroactive is affiliated with the Boulevards Network .