One of my favorite New York memories is meeting Amiri and Amina at a Pharoah Sanders show at Birdland. By that time Amiri and I were poet friends, having met first at late show at Blue Note, but I saw him as the mystic, sage, and teacher I’d gone to graduate school looking for and fittingly found in the half empty jazz club on Wednesday around midnight.…
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