Cool evening: my photos from Cave Canem reading, Bryant Park

Photos from Word for Word Poetry at The Bryant Park Reading Room (August 5, 2014), presented in partnership with Cave Canem, featuring poets Cornelius Eady, Derrick Weston Brown and Kyle Dargan with a special music performance by Cornelius Eady and Rough Magic

Cornelius Eady, poet and Cave Canem co-founder
(c)2014, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Cave Canem supports emerging African American poets 
through summer retreats, regional workshops, a first-book prize, 
annual anthologies, and events and readings across the country.

An English House Sparrow visits the reading.
(c)2014, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Eady performing with his band, Rough Magic,
which includes singer Robin Messing; guitarist Charlie Rauh; 
violinist/violist Concetta Abbate; drummer Leo Ferguson; 
and (shown here with Eady) bass player Emma Alabaster
all photos (c)2014, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

(c)2014, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Derrick Weston Brown, author of Wisdom Teeth 
all photos (c)2014, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Kyle Dargan, author of Logorrhea Dementia, 
Bouquet of Hungers and The Listening
photos above and below
(c)2014, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Cornelius Eady reading
(c)2014, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

For a schedule of future Word for Word events at Bryant Park, click here.

Bryant Park
behind New York Public Library
40th-42nd Streets, 5th-6th Avenues, Manhattan
(map/directions)