Summer Nights: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and 79.5 @poetshouse
Summer Nights: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and 79.5  @poetshouse
Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
The second installment of Summer Nights, where poetry met music outdoors in Battery Park City! LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs offered a hybrid sound-poetry performance; San Francisco poet laureate and jazz-collaborator Tongo Eisen-Martin read from Blood on the Fog; and the soulful and psychedelic band 79.5 performed from their discography. Poet and translator Urayoán Noel served as the MC for this event.
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