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Virtual Poetry Reading: Neal Kosaly-Meyer, John Lavin, Elijah B. Pringle, III, Fióna Bolger
February 2, 2022 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Virtual Poetry Reading: Neal Kosaly-Meyer, John Lavin, Elijah B. Pringle, III, Fióna Bolger
VIRTUAL – Registration Required: Virtual – Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdeGprT8qGNcj0i5hXzXxbHwMGpIttrri
Neal Kosaly-Meyer is a Seattle-based composer and performer. As a member of Moonstone’s aTONEment community, Neal has joined John Lavin to coordinate a Free Jazz performance in Dublin of Finnegans Wake with Jazz players from the United States and Ireland in June 2022. Neal’s performances of Finnegans Wake have been presented to the International James Joyce Foundations Symposia in Belgium (2018) and Mexico City (2019).
John Lavin is a jazz percussionist, has taught English in Philadelphia public high schools and is an adjunct English professor at Saint Joseph’s University. He has taught the novels of James Joyce since living and working in Dublin, and he has performed in Jazz ensembles with Jo Jones at Chuck’s Composite in New York and with both Sonny Stitt and Eric Kloss during the 1970s. Currently Lavin is distilling his teaching and jazz improvisation experience into Blues Pedagogy: Educational Tales from the Teaching Life, a study of diverse learning styles in urban 21st Century contexts. He is co-facilitating the Finnegans Wake & Jazz project with Neal Kosaly-Meyer, anticipating a concert and panel in June 2022 in Dublin.
Elijah B. Pringle, III is a Philadelphia poet, lyric baritone, composer, actor, and artivist. Published globally he has appeared on Radio, Television & Dramatic Stage. He credits his true education to five generations of teachers. Mr. Pringle has recently worked with several jazz bands, sharing his trademark sound in Blues, Brazilian, and Reggae renditions of the standard American Jazz Book. He will join in recitation, composition, and improvisation of James Joyce’s innovative classic Finnegans Wake in June 2022.
Fióna Bolger is lending her voice to the Finnegans Wake Jazz revival by way of recitation and composition. Her first poetry collection, a compound of words was launched in 2019 by Yoda Press. Love in the Original Language is due out from Salmon Poetry in June 2022. She lives between Ireland and India. More at www.fionabolgerpoetry.com.