Nisha Ramayya for Fantasia
4 February @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Come join Toppings for what they promise will be an evening full of astonishing jazz poetry!
Fantasia hazards a listening walk through seashells, telecommunication networks, and cosmic vibrations, to learn something new about how we sound. Alice Coltrane’s experiments in jazz and spiritual community guide these poems that hum and glitch, that leap across space-time, landing in and reflecting the discordant music of life on earth.
Nisha Ramayya works across poetry, criticism and collaborative performance, and teaches creative writing. She is the author of States of the Body Produced by Love, among other works.
To read Nisha Ramayya is excitement itself —Eley Williams
Nisha Ramayya is a poet who listens carefully to everything, allowing us to concentrate on the listener and heed what she tells us is heard… —CAConrad
Nisha Ramayya is cosmic, a one-of-a-kind, a once-in-a-generation artistic genius —Holly Pester