Vanessa Rubin & her Trio—Brandon McCune, Kenny Davis, Winard Harper—join forces with poet Nancy Mercado for a dynamic fusion of jazz and poetry that hits the heart and the pulse.
Nancy Mercado—New York’s New Generation Beat Poet Laureate (Lifetime Award) and American Book Award honoree—stands as one of the most influential voices in contemporary poetry. Named among The Frederick Douglass 200, she’s a poet, playwright, editor, and activist whose work has traveled from the United Nations to Lincoln Center, the Whitney, Casa de las Américas, the Dodge Poetry Festival, The Public Theater, and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
Author of It Concerns the Madness, Las Tres Hermanas, and seven stage plays, Mercado has also edited acclaimed anthologies including if the world were mine. Her poetry, essays, and interviews appear widely in journals and collections such as Tar Baby, Blind Persistence, and Bigotry on Broadway.
Across her career, Mercado’s work remains rooted in artistic excellence, cultural memory, and social justice. Visit: nancy-mercado.com