Dan Jaffe

Poetry, Fiction

Interviewed by: Angela Elam

Catalog Number(s): 20170127, 20020925, 20020501

Interview Year(s): 2002

Poet Dan Jaffe has always combined his poetry and his love of music in performances with modern composers of opera and classical music, as well as jazz. In this program, he reads from Festival and Playing the Word: Jazz Poems, which explores the jazz world, especially the Celestial City, a nickname for Kansas City.