• Kehinde Alonge
• Rutgers University - New Brunswick

Kehinde Alonge is a first-generation Nigerian-American currently in the 2nd year of his English Ph.D. program at Rutgers University. His interest lies in the intersection between experimental poetics and experimental music (I.e., Free Jazz and the rise of the Black Arts Movement). Additionally, Kehinde writes poetry and is interested in exploring the stakes involved in archiving Black Art, specifically West African Oral Poetics and the Free Jazz tradition. He is specifically the grappling with the conundrum of making that archive accessible to Black diasporic communities outside of academic institutions.

Speaking In:

• Out From Outside – Preparing to Play with John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, & Milford Graves