BY JOANNA C. VALENTE

These are a mix of old and new favorites that I love listening to - and will provide a poignant tone to your day:

1. Bobby Hutcherson - Components

2. Wayne Shorter - JuJu

3. Sun Ra - Strange Worlds in My Mind (Space Poetry Volume One)

4. Andrew Hill - Point of Departure

5. Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come

6. Dizzy Gillespie - Have Trumpet, Will Excite!

Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. They are the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014),The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (Operating System, 2017), Sexting Ghosts (Unknown Press, 2018), Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016), and the editor of A Shadow Map: Writing by Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017). They received their MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Joanna is the founder of Yes Poetry and the managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine. Some of their writing has appeared in Brooklyn Magazine, Prelude, BUST, Spork Press, and elsewhere. Joanna also leads workshops at Brooklyn Poets. joannavalente.com / Twitter: @joannasaid / IG: joannacvalente